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• Imagination alone is not enough, because the reality of nature is far more wondrous than anything we can imagine

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Reality, Imagination, Imagine

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• Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.

  Carl Sagan

  Lonely, Dark, Obscurity

  Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (2011). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, p.29, Ballantine Books

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• Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

  Carl Sagan

  Life, Art, Motivation

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.26, Ballantine Books

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• 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.

  Carl Sagan

  Light, Self, Blue Planet

  Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (2011). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, p.29, Ballantine Books

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• Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.

  Carl Sagan

  Education, Atheist, Thinking

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.430, Ballantine Books

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• For me, the study of these laws is inseparable from a love of Nature in all its manifestations. The beauty of the basic laws of natural science, as revealed in the study of particles and of the cosmos, is allied to the litheness of a merganser diving in a pure Swedish lake, or the grace of a dolphin leaving shining trails at night in the Gulf of California.

  Murray Gell-Mann

  Nature, Science, Night

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• Human history can be viewed as a slowly dawning awareness that we are members of a larger group.

  Carl Sagan

  Groups, Awareness, Members

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.371, Ballantine Books

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• The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Theory Of Evolution, Facts, Gravity

  "Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey". Documentary, 2014.

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• we make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers

  Carl Sagan

  Patience, Our World, Depth

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.217, Ballantine Books

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• This is so American, man: either make something your God and cosmos and then worship it, or else kill it.

  David Foster Wallace

  Men, Worship

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• Other times, you're doing some piece of work and suddenly you get feedback that tells you that you have touched something that is very alive in the cosmos.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Inspiration, Pieces, Alive

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.

  Carl Sagan

  Book, Magic, Proof

  "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage". Book by Carl Sagan, 1990.

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• Preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.

  Carl Sagan

  Home, Blue, Vastness

  Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (2011). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, p.29, Ballantine Books

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• The library connects us with the insight and knowledge, painfully extracted from Nature, of the greatest minds that ever were, with the best teachers, drawn from the entire planet and from all our history, to instruct us without tiring, and to inspire us to make our own contribution to the collective knowledge of the human species.

  Carl Sagan

  Teacher, Inspire, Mind

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.307, Ballantine Books

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• Each makes this cosmos and its construction the pivot of his emotional life, in order to find in this way peace and security which he can not find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience.

  Albert Einstein

  Life, Emotional, Order

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.32, St. Martin's Press

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• The surface of the Earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean. On this shore, we've learned most of what we know. Recently, we've waded a little way out, maybe ankle-deep, and the water seems inviting. Some part of our being knows this is where we came from. We long to return, and we can, because the cosmos is also within us. We're made of star stuff. We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.

  Carl Sagan

  Stars, Ocean, Long

  "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage". Documentary (1990 Update). Episode 1: "The Shores of the Cosmic Ocean", 1990.

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• We have begun to contemplate our origins: starstuff pondering the stars; organized assemblages of ten billion billion billion atoms considering the evolution of atoms; tracing the long journey by which, here at least, consciousness arose.

  Carl Sagan

  Stars, Journey, Long

  "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage". Book by Carl Sagan, 1980.

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• The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.

  Carl Sagan

  Existentialism, Benign, Astronomy And Universe

  "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage". Book by Carl Sagan, p. 250, 1980.

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• We've begun at last to wonder about our origins, star stuff contemplating the stars, organized collections of ten billion billion billion atoms contemplating the evolution of matter, tracing that long path by which it arrived at consciousness here on the planet Earth and perhaps throughout the cosmos.  Our obligation to survive and flourish is owed not just to ourselves but also to that cosmos, ancient and vast, from which we spring.

  Carl Sagan

  Stars, Spring, Long

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• Our loyalties are to the species and the planet. We speak for Earth.

  Carl Sagan

  Loyalty, Earth, Speak

  "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage". Book by Carl Sagan, 1980.

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• The world looks marvelous from up here, so peaceful, so wonderful and so fragile. Everybody, all of us down there, not only in Israel, have to keep it clean and good.

  Ilan Ramon

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

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• The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.

  Carl Sagan

  Humility, Thinking, Compassion

  Carl Sagan (1994). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, Random House Incorporated

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• Follow the evidence wherever it leads, and question everything.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Evidence

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• The fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses.

  Carl Sagan

  Laughter, Doing You, Doe

  Broca's Brain ch. 5 (1979)

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• It is because the cosmos is meaningless that we must secure our individual illusions of values, direction, and interest by upholding the artificial streams which give us such worlds of salutary illusion. That is - since nothing means anything in itself, we must preserve the proximate and arbitrary background which makes things around us seem as if they did mean something.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Mean, Giving, Arbitrary

  Letter to James F. Morton (6 November 1930), in "Selected Letters III, 1929-1931" edited by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei, (p. 208), 1968.

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