The significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage.
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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You have to know the past to understand the present.
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it.
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We live in a vast and awesome universe in which, daily, suns are made and worlds destroyed, where humanity clings to an obscure clod of rock.
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If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
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Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
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Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
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I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture and our concern for the future can all be tested by how well we support our libraries.
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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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The visions we offer our children shape the future.
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Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
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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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I’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
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Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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