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.
CARL SAGANWriting is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.
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Your god is too small for my universe.
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The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.
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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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We are all stardust.
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The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
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Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.
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For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
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I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
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Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
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The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it.
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If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
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To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.
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I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves.
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