100+ Carl Sagan Quotes | Minimalist Quotes

Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.
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Accommodation Admire Enough Faith God Strive Truth Universe
The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life.
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Earth Harbor Life
Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.
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Disturb Glory Stupidity
Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
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Book Permit Time Voyage Wisdom
The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what’s true.
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desperatel Determination Preference Prejudice Puzzle True Truth Want Work
We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
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Cosmic Deep Science
Every star may be a sun to someone.
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Deep One Liner Stars Sun
Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
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Compatible Profound Science Soource Spiritual
Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.
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Advance Agriculture History Live Lost Medicine Save Science Vast War
We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers.
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Courage Depth Significance World
Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
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Book Break Human Magic Proof Time Work
The universe is a pretty big place. If it’s just us, seems like an awful waste of space.
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Awful Place Pretty Science Space Universe Waste
The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
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Ambition Harmony Human Perfection Requirement Universe
Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
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Comfortable Fantasy Inspirational Truth
The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it.
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Anticipation Anxiety Future Pay Price
We can’t help it. Life looks for life.
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Help Life Look Science
We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
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Butterfly Forever Human Nature Thinking
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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Body Knowledge Science Thinking
There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.
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Delicate Forbidden Matter Scare Science Sensitive Truth
Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
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Distance Greatness Ignorance Mistake Perspective
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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Argument Authority Expert Future Mistake Past Weight
Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
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Equality Inspirational Smart Stupidity
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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Awareness Book Civilization Concern Culture Depth Future Health Library Test
Don’t judge everyone else by your own limited experience.
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Experience Judgement Life Limitation
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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Beach Earth Grain Number Planet Sand Science Stars Universe
People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.
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Believe Deep People Reason Stupidity
There are as many atoms in one molecule of DNA as there are stars in a typical galaxy.
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Atom DNA Galaxy Molecule Science Stars Typical

Carl Sagan Quotes

Famous American astronomers