Carl Sagan Quotes, Space Quotes, Overcoming Quotes

Once we overcome our fear of being tiny, we find ourselves on the threshold of a vast and awesome Universe that utterly dwarfs — in time, in space, and in potential — the tidy anthropocentric proscenium of our ancestors.

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

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There are many instances in science, where those closest to the intricacies of the subject have a more highly developed sense of its intractability than those at some remove. On the other hand, those at too great a distance may, I am well aware, mistake ignorance for perspective.

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The desire to be connected with the cosmos reflects a profound reality, but we are connected; not in the trivial ways that astrology promises, but in the deepest ways.

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Our ancestors lived out of doors. They were as familiar with the night sky as most of us are with our favorite television programs.

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The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.

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All inquiries carry with them some element of risk.

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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 good evidence.

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Ours is the first generation that has grown up with science-fiction ideas.

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It is all a matter of time scale. An event that would be unthinkable in a hundred years may be inevitable in a hundred million.

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I think if we ever reach the point where we think we thoroughly understand who we are and where we came from, we will have failed.

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Who are we, if not measured by our impact on others? That’s who we are! We’re not who we say we are, we’re not who we want to be - we are the sum of the influence and impact that we have, in our lives, on others.

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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 others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.

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A googolplex is precisely as far from infinity as is the number 1... no matter what number you have in mind, infinity is larger still.

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In the long run, the aggressive civilizations destroy themselves, almost always. It's their nature. They can't help it.

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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 billion years of cosmic evolution. We have a choice: We can enhance life and come to know the universe that made us, or we can squander our 15 billion-year heritage in meaningless self-destruction. What happens in the first second of the next cosmic year depends on what we do, here and now, with our intelligence and our knowledge of the cosmos.

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Valid criticism does you a favor.

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We can't help it. Life looks for life.

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Think of how many religions attempt to validate themselves with prophecy. Think of how many people rely on these prophecies, however vague, however unfulfilled, to support or prop up their beliefs. Yet has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science? ... No other human institution comes close.

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Nature does not always conform to our predispositions and preferences, to what we deem comfortable and easy to understand.

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