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Carl Sagan  Quotes
It’s a lazy Saturday afternoon, there’s a couple lying naked in bed reading Encyclopediea Brittannica to each other, and arguing about whether the Andromeda Galaxy is more ‘numinous’ than the Ressurection. Do they know how...

—Carl Sagan

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In all our searching, the only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other.

—Carl Sagan

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Since, in the long run, every planetary civilization will be endangered by impacts from space, every surviving civilization is obliged to become spacefaring–not because of exploratory or romantic zeal, but for the most practical reason...

—Carl Sagan

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We make our purpose.

—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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HumanityIndividualityLove
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For thousands of years humans were oppressed— as some of us still are— by the notion that the universe is a marionette whose strings are pulled by a god or gods, unseen and inscrutable. Then,...

—Carl Sagan

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Humans — who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals — have had an understandable penchant for pretending animals do not feel pain. A sharp distinction between humans and ‘animals’ is essential if we...

—Carl Sagan

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If we long for our planet to be important, there is something we can do about it. We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and by the depth of our answers.

—Carl Sagan

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Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The...

—Carl Sagan

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If we are merely matter intricately assembled, is this really demeaning? If there’s nothing here but atoms, does that make us less or does that make matter more?

—Carl Sagan

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Every aspect of Nature reveals a deep mystery and touches our sense of wonder and awe. Those afraid of the universe as it really is, those who pretend to nonexistent knowledge and envision a Cosmos...

—Carl Sagan

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We are the only species on the planet, so far as we know, to have invented a communal memory stored neither in our genes nor in our brains. The warehouse of this memory is called...

—Carl Sagan

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Science gropes and staggers toward improved understanding.

—Carl Sagan

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The major religions on the Earth contradict each other left and right. You can’t all be correct. And what if all of you are wrong? It’s a possibility, you know. You must care about the...

—Carl Sagan

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So beautiful! I had no idea! I had no idea…

—Carl Sagan

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An extraterrestrial being, newly arrived on Earth – scrutinizing what we mainly present to our children in television, radio, movies, newspapers, magazines, the comics, and many books – might easily conclude that we are intent...

—Carl Sagan

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A central lesson of science is that to understand complex issues (or even simple ones), we must try to free our minds of dogma and to guarantee the freedom to publish, to contradict, and to...

—Carl Sagan

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Their position seems to be that their God is so great he doesn’t even have to exist.

—Carl Sagan

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Some information is classified legitimately; as with military hardware, secrecy sometimes really is in the national interest. Further, military, political, and intelligence communities tend to value secrecy for its own sake. It’s a way of...

—Carl Sagan

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Why does Alexander the Great never tell us about the exact location of his tomb, Fermat about his Last Theorem, John Wilkes Booth about the Lincoln assassination conspiracy, Hermann Göring about the Reichstag fire? Why...

—Carl Sagan

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The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the...

—Carl Sagan

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So those who wished for some central cosmic purpose for us, or at least our world, or at least our solar system, or at least our galaxy, have been disappointed, progressively disappointed. The universe is...

—Carl Sagan

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scientifically illiterate.” That’s just the same fraction as those African Americans, almost all of them slaves, who were illiterate just before the Civil War—when severe penalties were in force for anyone who taught a slave...

—Carl Sagan

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EducationLiteracyScience
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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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The illegality of cannabis is outrageous, an impediment to full utilization of a drug which helps produce the serenity and insight, sensitivity and fellowship so desperately needed in this increasingly mad and dangerous world.

—Carl Sagan

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The secrets of evolution are death and time—the deaths of enormous numbers of lifeforms that were imperfectly adapted to the environment; and time for a long succession of small mutations.

—Carl Sagan

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Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.

—Carl Sagan

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La prueba de ausencia no es prueba de ausencia

—Carl Sagan

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Philosophy
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Your religion assumes that people are children and need a boogeyman so they’ll behave. You want people to believe in God so they’ll obey the law. That’s the only means that occurs to you: a...

—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 much as I want to believe that, and despite the ancient...

—Carl Sagan

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It is morally as bad not to care whether a thing is true or not, so long as it makes you feel good, as it is not to care how you got your money as...

—Carl Sagan

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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...

—Carl Sagan

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AuthorityCarl-SaganScience
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There is a reward structure in science that is very interesting: Our highest honors go to those who disprove the findings of the most revered among us. So Einstein is revered not just because he...

—Carl Sagan

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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.

—Carl Sagan

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ConnectednessEvolutionLife
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The visions we offer our children shape the future. It _matters_ what those visions are. Often they become self-fulfilling prophecies. Dreams are maps.

—Carl Sagan

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Christianity may be good and Satanism evil. Under the Constitution, however, both are neutral. This is an important, but difficult, concept for many law enforcement officers to accept. They are paid to uphold the penal...

—Carl Sagan

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If you want to save your child from polio, you can pray or you can inoculate. … Choose science.

—Carl Sagan

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Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.

—Carl Sagan

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Why do we put up with it? Do we like to be criticized? No, no scientist enjoys it. Every scientist feels a proprietary affection for his or her ideas and findings. Even so, you don’t...

—Carl Sagan

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Billions of years from now our sun, then a distended red giant star, will have reduced Earth to a charred cinder. But the Voyager record will still be largely intact, in some other remote region...

—Carl Sagan

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I think the discomfort that some people feel in going to the monkey cages at the zoo is a warning sign.

—Carl Sagan

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If we can’t think for ourselves, if we’re unwilling to question authority, then we’re just putty in the hands of those in power. But if the citizens are educated and form their own opinions, then...

—Carl Sagan

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DemocracyEducationHumanity
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I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time — when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other...

—Carl Sagan

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9-119-11-0199-Percent
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We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.

—Carl Sagan

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Carl-SaganHumansLife
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Think of how many religions attempt to validate themselves with prophecy. Think of how many people rely on these prophecies, however vague, however unfulfilled, to support or prop up their beliefs. Yet has there ever...

—Carl Sagan

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ProphecyReasonScience
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Ethnocentrism, xenophobia and nationalism are these days rife in many parts of the world. Government repression of unpopular views is still widespread. False or misleading memories are inculcated. For the defenders of such attitudes, science...

—Carl Sagan

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Nationalism
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Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors. The library connects us with the insight and knowledge, painfully extracted from Nature, of the greatest minds that ever were, with...

—Carl Sagan

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BooksCivilizationEducation
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You could just as well say that an agnostic is a deeply religious person with at least a rudimentary knowledge of human fallibility.

—Carl Sagan

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AgnosticReligionSkepticism
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It is the responsibility of scientists never to suppress knowledge, no matter how awkward that knowledge is, no matter how it may bother those in power; we are not smart enough to decide which pieces...

—Carl Sagan

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AwkwardKnowledgePower
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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

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