We are all stardust.
CARL SAGANScience is a way to not fool ourselves.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
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When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion.
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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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Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
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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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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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Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgement, the manner in which information is coordinated and used.
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For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
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One of the great commandments of science is: Mistrust arguments from authority.
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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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Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
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Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
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Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
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The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
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