Carl Sagan quotes
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.
The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist deep in gasoline, one with three matches, the other with five.
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.
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.
One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.
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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.