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It is useless to search for that which cannot exist.
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The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
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If the press descended, the science would surely suffer.
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That it will never come again
Is what makes life so sweet.
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Sailors on a becalmed sea, we sense the stirring of a breeze.
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There are wonders enough out there without our inventing any.
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Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.
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Jingoistic rhetoric and puerile self-congratulatory nationalism.
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It means nothing to be open to a proposition we don't understand.
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The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it
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It's hard to kill a creature once it lets you see its consciousness.
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Atoms are mainly empty space. Matter is composed chiefly of nothing.
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Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
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We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it's forever.
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Astronomically, the U. S. S. R. and the United States are the same place.
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If we crave some cosmic purpose, then let us find ourselves a worthy goal.
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For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
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Ours is the first generation that has grown up with science-fiction ideas.
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I think people in power have a vested interest to oppose critical thinking.
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The open road still softly calls, like a nearly forgotten song of childhood
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Many other animals have feelings. What distinguishes our species is thought.
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And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
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In exchange for freedom of inquiry, scientists are obliged to explain their work.
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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
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As the ancient myth makers knew, we are children equally of the earth and the sky.
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Science is far from a perfect instrument of knowledge. It's just the best we have.
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A galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars — billions upon billions of stars.
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The Universe is not obliged to conform to what we consider comfortable or plausible.
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Humans are very good at dreaming, although you'd never know it from your television.
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UFOs: The reliable cases are uninteresting and the interesting cases are unreliable.
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
Cole Porter
Carl Sagan
Born:
November 9, 1934
Died:
December 20, 1996
(aged 62)
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