Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
CARL SAGANI would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Nature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
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Arguments from authority carry little weight, authorities have made mistakes in the past. They will do so again in the future. Perhaps a better way to say it is that in science there are no authorities; at most, there are experts.
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Your god is too small for my universe.
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Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
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The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
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The universe is a pretty big place. If it’s just us, seems like an awful waste of space.
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What an astonishing thing a book is.
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The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.
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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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Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
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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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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
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Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.
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