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.
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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I don’t want to believe. I want to know.
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Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
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Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
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Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
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There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.
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What an astonishing thing a book is.
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The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
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Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
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One of the great commandments of science is: Mistrust arguments from authority.
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Science is a way to not fool ourselves.
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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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One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.
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For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
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All over the world there are enormous numbers of smart, even gifted, people who harbor a passion for science.
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