Our ancestors lived out of doors. They were as familiar with the night sky as most of us are with our favorite television programs.
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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Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
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Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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There are as many atoms in one molecule of DNA as there are stars in a typical galaxy.
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If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
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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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Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean. We are ready at last to set sail for the stars.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
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We are all stardust.
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Arguments from authority carry little weight, authorities have made mistakes in the past. They will do so again in the future. Perhaps a better way to say it is that in science there are no authorities; at most, there are experts.
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Your god is too small for my universe.
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Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
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Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.
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Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
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Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
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If I finish a book a week, I will read only a few thousand books in my lifetime, about a tenth of a percent of the contents of the greatest libraries of our time. The trick is to know which books to read.
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