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“Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.”
― Albert Einstein

“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery each day.

—"Old Man's Advice to Youth: 'Never Lose a Holy Curiosity.'" LIFE Magazine (2 May 1955) p. 64”
― Albert Einstein

“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
― Carl Sagan

“For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson

“One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away.”
― Stephen Hawking

“Across galaxies of time and space
Travelling just to see your face
Lost amidst the countless stars
To bring me back to where you are.”
― Bryce W. Anderson

“When we hold each other, in the darkness, it doesn't make the darkness go away. The bad things are still out there. The nightmares still walking. When we hold each other we feel not safe, but better. "It's all right" we whisper, "I'm here, I love you." and we lie: "I'll never leave you." For just a moment or two the darkness doesn't seem so bad.”
― Neil Gaiman, Neil Gaiman's Midnight Days

“Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.”
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

“we make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

“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 through love.”
― Carl Sagan, Contact

“The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

“The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence.”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

“Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean. We are ready at last to set sail for the stars.”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

“It takes a fearless, unflinching love and deep humility to accept the universe as it is. The most effective way he knew to accomplish that, the most powerful tool at his disposal, was the scientific method, which over time winnows out deception. It can't give you absolute truth because science is a permanent revolution, always subject to revision, but it can give you successive approximations of reality.”
― Ann Druyan

“The way to find out about our place in the universe is by examining the universe and by examining ourselves - without preconceptions, with as unbiased a mind as we can muster.”
― Carl Sagan

“And what greater might do we possess as human beings than our capacity to question and to learn?”
― Ann Druyan

“Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you're in love, you want to tell the world.”
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

“Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgement, the manner in which information is coordinated and used.”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

“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.”
― Carl Sagan, The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God

“Knowing how to think empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Where ignorance lurks, so too do the frontiers of discovery and imagination”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson

“So what is true for life itself is no less true for the universe: knowing where you came from is no less important than knowing where you are going.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson

“There are no limits when you are surrounded by people who believe in you, or by people whose expectations are not set by the short-sighted attitudes of society, or by people who help to open doors of opportunity, not close them.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson, The Sky Is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist

“Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure science. —EDWIN P. HUBBLE (1889–1953), The Nature of Science”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson, Death by Black Hole

“There’s no shame in admitting what you don’t know. The only shame is pretending you know all the answers.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Curious fact that those who never fail are also those who never truly succeed.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson

“But what other people thought was no longer of any help to me. Those thoughts only existed within certain structures, and I had definitively left those structures.”
― Rachel Cusk, Outline

“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time