Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
CARL SAGANExtraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.
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The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture and our concern for the future can all be tested by how well we support our libraries.
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Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you’re in love, you want to tell the world.
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Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
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Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
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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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Every star may be a sun to someone.
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The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves.
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Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
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Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
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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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