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Universe Quotes by Carl Sagan

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We live on a hunk of rock and metal that circles a modest star among billions in the Milky Way, a reminder of our tiny place in a vast cosmos. Sagan emphasizes that science thrives on experiments and questioning old ideas, and he points out that many mysteries remain while our atoms were forged in ancient stars.

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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.

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The universe forces those who live in it to understand it.

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There is in this Universe much of what seems to be design.

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We are a way of the universe knowing itself.

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We are, each of us, a multitude. Within us is a little universe.

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We are one species. We are starstuff.

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We are the universe experiencing itself.

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If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.

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In order to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.

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We live in a vast and awesome universe in which, daily, suns are made and worlds destroyed, where humanity clings to an…

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[Kepler] preferred the hard truth to his dearest illusions, and that is the heart of science.

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The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.

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

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You mustn't think of the Universe as a wilderness. It hasn't been that for billions of years," he said. "Think of it…

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Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.

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Those with the courage to explore the weave and structure of the Cosmos, even where it differs profoundly from their wishes and…

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A general problem with much of Western theology in my view is that the god portrayed is too small. It is a…

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Those afraid of the universe as it really is, those who pretend to nonexistent knowledge and envision a Cosmos centered on human…

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If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe,…

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Once we overcome our fear of being tiny, we find ourselves on the threshold of a vast and awesome Universe that utterly…

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But amid much elegance and precision, the details of life and the Universe also exhibit haphazard, jury-rigged arrangements and much poor planning.…

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Science is based on experiment, on a willingness to challenge old dogma, on an openness to see the universe as it really…

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The Universe forces those who live in it to understand it. Those creatures who find everyday experience a muddled jumble of events…

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We've tended in our cosmologies to make things familiar. Despite all our best efforts, we've not been very inventive. In the West,…

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I went to the librarian and asked for a book about stars… And the answer was stunning. It was that the Sun…

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How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, “This is better than we thought! The Universe…

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Science and mathematics [are] much more compelling and exciting than the doctrines of pseudoscience, whose practitioners were condemned as early as the…

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The idea that God is an oversized white male with a flowing beard, who sits in the sky and tallies the fall…

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We live on a hunk of rock and metal that circles a humdrum star that is one of 400 billion other stars…

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An atheist is someone who is certain that God does not exist, someone who has compelling evidence against the existence of God.…

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Those afraid of the universe as it really is, those who pretend to nonexistent knowledge and envision a Cosmos centered on human…

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“We inhabit a universe where atoms are made in the centers of stars; where each second a thousand suns are born; where…

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“Consider again that pale blue dot...imagine that you take a good long look at it, imagine that you are starring at it…

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My deeply held belief is that if a god of anything like the traditional sort exists, our curiosity and intelligence are provided…

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“The laws of nature cannot be randomly reshuffled at the cusps [of an oscillating universe]. If the universe has already gone through…

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“We have examined the universe in space and seen that we live on a mote of dust circling a humdrum star in…

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“There is a wide yawning black infinity. In every direction the extension is endless, the sensation of depth is overwhelming. And the…

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“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…

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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

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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.”

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“On the scale of worlds—to say nothing of stars or galaxies—humans are inconsequential, a thin film of life on an obscure and solitary lump…

Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies,…

In our time, we have sifted the sands of Mars, we have established a presence there, we have fulfilled a century of dreams!

“[ When a religious couple wrote to Sagan about fulfilled prophecies, he wrote back in May 1996 :] If ‘fulfilled prophecy’ is your criterion,…

Don't judge everyone else by your own limited experience.

“Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors. The library connects us with the insight and knowledge, painfully…

We live on a hunk of rock and metal that circles a humdrum star that is one of 400 billion other stars that make…

A tiny blue dot set in a sunbeam. Here it is. That's where we live. That's home. We humans are one species and this…

Any sufficiently crisp question can be answered by a single binary digit-0 or 1, yes or no.

Humans — who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals — have had an understandable penchant for pretending animals do not feel pain.…

Every star may be a sun to someone.