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If you wish to make an apple ...

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

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Skeptical scrutiny is the mea...

Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.

Carl Sagan 629 quotes

All of the books in the world...

All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.

Carl Sagan 629 quotes

Who are we? We find that we l...

Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.

Carl Sagan 629 quotes

There is a wide, yawning blac...

There is a wide, yawning black infinity. In every direction, the extension is endless; the sensation of depth is overwhelming. And the darkness is immortal. Where light exists, it is pure, blazing, fierce; but light exists almost nowhere, and the blackness itself is also pure and blazing and fierce.

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You probably don't need more ...

You probably don't need more weapons than what's required to destroy every city on earth. There's only 2,300 cities. So, the United States, by that criteria, only needs 2,300 nuclear weapons - well, we've got more than 25,000!

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I am often amazed at how much...

I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.

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Personally, I would be deligh...

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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Extinction is the rule. Survi...

Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.

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But the fact that some genius...

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

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Our posturings, our imagined ...

Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark.

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The boundary between space an...

The boundary between space and the earth is purely arbitrary. And I'll probably always be interested in this planet - it's my favorite.

Carl Sagan 629 quotes

I can find in my undergraduat...

I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star.

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When you make the finding you...

When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it.

Carl Sagan 629 quotes

The dangers of not thinking c...

The dangers of not thinking clearly are much greater now than ever before. It's not that there's something new in our way of thinking - it's that credulous and confused thinking can be much more lethal in ways it was never before.

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Even these stars, which seem ...

Even these stars, which seem so numerous, are as sand, as dust - or less than dust - in the enormity of the space in which there is nothing.

Carl Sagan 629 quotes

A celibate clergy is an espec...

A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.

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We have also arranged things ...

We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.

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No other planet in the solar ...

No other planet in the solar system is a suitable home for human beings; it's this world or nothing. That's a very powerful perception.

Carl Sagan 629 quotes

We've arranged a civilization...

We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.

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