We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
CARL SAGANThe beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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We all have a thirst for wonder. It’s a deeply human quality. Science and religion are both bound up with it.
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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Science 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.
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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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Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.
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Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
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Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.
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The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.
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And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
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Writing is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
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Your god is too small for my universe.
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Writing is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
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For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
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