If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
CARL SAGANScience is an attempt, largely successful, to understand the world, to get a grip on things, to get hold of ourselves, to steer a safe course.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.
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A galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars – billions upon billions of stars. Every star may be a sun to someone.
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I don’t want to believe. I want to know.
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If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go.
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The significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage.
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Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.
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Perhaps the depth of love can be calibrated by the number of different selves that are actively involved in a given relationship.
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Nature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
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Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
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All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.
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We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers.
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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
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The very act of understanding is a celebration of joining, merging, even if on a very modest scale, with the magnificence of the Cosmos.
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Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
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Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.
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