Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
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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The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it.
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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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Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
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Every kid starts out as a natural-born scientist, and then we beat it out of them. A few trickle through the system with their wonder and enthusiasm for science intact.
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Our ancestors lived out of doors. They were as familiar with the night sky as most of us are with our favorite television programs.
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The total number of stars in the Universe is larger than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth.
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Nature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
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The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
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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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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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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
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We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
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Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.
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