We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
CARL SAGANExtraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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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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If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.
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Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
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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.
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Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
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Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
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We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
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Perhaps the depth of love can be calibrated by the number of different selves that are actively involved in a given relationship.
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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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For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
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Nature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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One of the great commandments of science is: Mistrust arguments from authority.
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