QUOTES by Carl Sagan
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"The sky calls to us. If we do not destroy ourselves, we will one day venture to the stars."
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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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"Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil."
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"A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism."
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"But nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine."
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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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"In all our searching, the only thing we've found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other."
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"My view is that if there is no evidence for it, then forget about it. An agnostic is somebody who doesn’t believe in something until there is evidence for it, so I’m agnostic."
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"Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people."
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"If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth."
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"Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean. We are ready at last to set sail for the stars."
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"The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas."
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"She had studied the universe all her life, but had overlooked its clearest message: For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love."
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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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"We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers"
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"It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English - up to fifty words used in correct context - no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese."
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"The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself."
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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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"The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist deep in gasoline, one with three matches, the other with five."
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"Frederick Douglass taught that literacy is the path from slavery to freedom. There are many kinds of slavery and many kinds of freedom, but reading is still the path."
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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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"We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good."
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"Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere."
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"For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring."
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"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe."
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