For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
CARL SAGANScience is a way to not fool ourselves.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.
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An atheist is someone who is certain that God does not exist, someone who has compelling evidence against the existence of God.
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We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called “leaves”) imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles.
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The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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Not all birds can fly. What separates the flyers from the walkers is the ability to take off.
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What an astonishing thing a book is.
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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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People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.
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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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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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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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There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.
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I don’t want to believe. I want to know.
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We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
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