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Carl Sagan

Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever the universe has to teach us, or somebody who says everything in this book must be considered the literal truth and never mind the fallibility of all the human beings involved?

Carl Sagan

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The universe is a pretty big place. If it’s just us, seems like an awful waste of space.

Carl Sagan

genius carl sagan

We are like butterflies that flutter for a day and think it is forever.

Carl Sagan

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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.

Carl Sagan

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But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, and they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

Carl Sagan

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I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking, feeling, remembering part of me will continue. But as much as I want to believe that, and despite the ancient and worldwide cultural traditions that assert an afterlife, I know of nothing to suggest that it is more than wishful thinking.

Carl Sagan

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It pays to keep an open mind, but not so open your brains fall out.

Carl Sagan

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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.

Carl Sagan

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Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

Carl Sagan

genius carl sagan

For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

Carl Sagan

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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. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for thousands of years

Carl Sagan

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Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.

Carl Sagan

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The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies was made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of star stuff.

Carl Sagan

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Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.

Carl Sagan

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Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

Carl Sagan