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Life Quotes by Carl Sagan
- Life is but a momentary glimpse of the wonder of this astonishing universe, and it is sad to see so many dreaming it away on…
- If some good evidence for life after death were announced, I'd be eager to examine it; but it would have to be real scientific data,…
- Probably a dozen times since their death I've heard my mother or father, in an ordinary conversational tone of voice, call my name. They had…
- Some 5 billion years from now, there will be a last perfect day on Earth... then the sun will begin to die, life will be…
- I would be very ashamed of my civilization if we did not try to find out if there is life in outer space.
- When you look more generally at life on Earth, you find that it is all the same kind of life. There are not many different…
- Modern Darwinism makes it abundantly clear that many less ruthless traits, some not always admired by robber barons and Fuhrers - altruism, general intelligence, compassion…
- Some racists still reject the plain testimony written in the DNA that all the races are not only human but nearly indistinguishable. . . .
- Has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science? . . . No other human institution comes close.
- Discussing the possibilities of extraterrestrial life: I would love it even if they were short, sullen, grumpy and sexually obsessed. But there just isn't any…
- But down deep, at the molecular heart of life we're essentially identical to trees.
- We are...capable of using our compassion and our intelligence, our technology and our wealth, to make an abundant and meaningful life for every inhabitant of…
- We on Earth have just awakened to the great oceans of space and time from which we have emerged. We are the legacy of 15…
- Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
- We are rare and precious because we are alive, because we can think as well as we can. We are privileged to influence and perhaps…
- The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our…
- There are in fact 100 billion galaxies, each of which contain something like a 100 billion stars. Think of how many stars, and planets, and…
- For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
- Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
- Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and…
- We live on a hunk of rock and metal that circles a humdrum star that is one of 400 billion other stars that make up…
- Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever the universe has to teach us, or…
- We can't help it. Life looks for life.
- She had studied the universe all her life, but had overlooked its clearest message: For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only…
- I don't want to believe. I want to know.
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- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle