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But I try not to think with my gut. If I'm serious about understanding the world, thinking with anything besides my brain, as tempting as that might be, is likely to get me into trouble.


Carl Sagan

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CARL SAGAN At the heart of science is an essential balance between two seemingly contradictory attitudes--an op...
CARL SAGAN An atheist is someone who is certain that God doesn't exist, someone who has compelling evidence aga...
CARL SAGAN Many religions have attempted to make statues of their gods very large, and the idea, I suppose, is ...
CARL SAGAN Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
CARL SAGAN It seems to me what is called for is an exquisite balance between two conflicting needs: the most sk...
CARL SAGAN Once we lose our fear of being tiny, we find ourselves on the threshold of a vast and awesome Univer...
CARL SAGAN To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.
CARL SAGAN As science advances, there seems to be less and less for God to do. It's a big universe, of course, ...
CARL SAGAN We have examined the universe in space and seen that we live on a mote of dust circling a humdrum st...
CARL SAGAN It is said that men may not be the dreams of the god, but rather that the gods are the dreams of men...
CARL SAGAN If we long for our planet to be important, there is something we can do about it. We make our world ...
CARL SAGAN Every aspect of Nature reveals a deep mystery and touches our sense of wonder and awe. Those afraid ...
CARL SAGAN Observation: I can't see a thing. Conclusion: Dinosaurs.
CARL SAGAN We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
CARL SAGAN Atoms are mainly empty space. Matter is composed chiefly of nothing.
CARL SAGAN We inhabit a universe where atoms are made in the centers of stars; where each second a thousand sun...
CARL SAGAN You are worth about 3 dollars worth in chemicals.
CARL SAGAN Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soi...
CARL SAGAN The surface of the Earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean. On this shore, we've learned most of what...
CARL SAGAN One glance at (a book) and you hear the voice of another person - perhaps someone dead for thousands...
CARL SAGAN Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
CARL SAGAN The size and age of the Cosmos are beyond ordinary human understanding. Lost somewhere between immen...
CARL SAGAN If I finish a book a week, I will read only a few thousand books in my lifetime, about a tenth of a ...
CARL SAGAN Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered lo...
CARL SAGAN The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence.
CARL SAGAN we make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers
CARL SAGAN We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
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