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#1

“For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.”
― Carl Sagan

tags: connection, evolution, humanity, humility, life, love, meaning, people, purpose, vastness

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#2

“You're an interesting species. An interesting mix. You're capable of such beautiful dreams, and such horrible nightmares. You feel so lost, so cut off, so alone, only you're not. See, in all our searching, the only thing we've found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.”
― Carl Sagan, Contact

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#3

“We all have a thirst for wonder. It's a deeply human quality. Science and religion are both bound up with it. What I'm saying is, you don't have to make stories up, you don't have to exaggerate. There's wonder and awe enough in the real world. Nature's a lot better at inventing wonders than we are.”
― Carl Sagan, Contact

tags: ellie-arroway, freethinking, religion, science, spirituality

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#4

“It's hard to kill a creature once it lets you see its consciousness.”
― Carl Sagan, Contact

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#5

“Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.”
― Carl Sagan, Contact

tags: inspirational, religion, science

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#6

“I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.”
― Carl Sagan, The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God

tags: beauty, cosmology, cosmos, existence, informed, knowledge, science

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#7

“Many religions have attempted to make statues of their gods very large, and the idea, I suppose, is to make us feel small. But if that's their purpose, they can keep their paltry icons. We need only look up if we wish to feel small.”
― Carl Sagan, The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God

tags: icons, religions, sky, small, statues, up

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#8

“There are huge advertising budgets only when there's no difference between the products. If the products really were different, people would buy the one that's better. Advertising teaches people not to trust their judgment. Advertising teaches people to be stupid.”
― Carl Sagan, Contact

tags: advertising

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#9

“Anything you don't understand, you attribute to God. God for you is where you sweep away all the mysteries of the world, all the challenges to our intelligence. You simply turn your mind off and say God did it.”
― Carl Sagan, Contact

tags: god

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#10

“I think the discomfort that some people feel in going to the monkey cages at the zoo is a warning sign.”
― Carl Sagan, The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God

tags: evolution, monkey, science, truth, zoo

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#11

“Their position seems to be that their God is so great he doesn't even have to exist.”
― Carl Sagan, Contact

tags: belief, god, religion

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#12

“The major religions on the Earth contradict each other left and right. You can't all be correct. And what if all of you are wrong? It's a possibility, you know. You must care about the truth, right? Well, the way to winnow through all the differing contentions is to be skeptical. I'm not any more skeptical about your religious beliefs than I am about every new scientific idea I hear about. But in my line of work, they're called hypotheses, not inspiration and not revelation.”
― Carl Sagan, Contact

tags: beliefs, contradiction, earth, hypotheses, idea, inspiration, religion, religions, revelation, scepticism, science, skepticism, truth, wrong

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#13

“You know the opinion of Cervantes? He said that reading a translation is like examining the back of a piece of tapestry.”
― Carl Sagan, Contact

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#14

“But the male lexicographers had somehow neglected to coin a word for the dislike of men. They were almost entirely men themselves, she thought, and had been unable to imagine a market for such a word.”
― Carl Sagan, Contact

tags: language, sexism

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#15

“...You think if I haven't had your religious experience I can't appreciate the magnificence of your god. But it's just the opposite. I listen to you, and I think, his god is too small! One paltry planet, a few thousand years -- hardly worth the attention of a minor deity, much less the Creator of the universe.”
― Carl Sagan, Contact

tags: faith

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#16

“Certainly on this planet it is not apparent that there are beings more intelligent than humans, although a case can be made for dolphins and whales, and in fact if humans succeed in destroying themselves with nuclear weapons, a case can be made that ALL other animals are smarter than humans.”
― Carl Sagan, The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God

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#17

“I say you don't need any more proof. There are proofs enough already. Cygnus A and all that are just for the scientists. You think it'll be hard to convince ordinary people that you're telling the truth. I think it'll be easy as pie. You think your story is too peculiar, too alien. But I've heard it before. I know it well. And I bet you do too.”
― Carl Sagan, Contact

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#18

“It's the idea that people living close to nature tend to be noble. It's seeing all those sunsets that does it. You can't watch a sunset and then go off and set fire to your neighbor's tepee. Living close to nature is wonderful for your mental health.”
― Daniel Quinn, Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit

tags: closeness-to-nature, humanity, humor, nature

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#19

“The premise of the Taker story is 'the world belongs to man'. … The premise of the Leaver story is 'man belongs to the world'.”
― Daniel Quinn, Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit

tags: civilization, philosophy

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#20

“You're captives of a civilizational system that more or less compels you to go on destroying the world in order to live. … You are captives—and you have made a captive of the world itself. That's what's at stake, isn't it?—your captivity and the captivity of the world.”
― Daniel Quinn, Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit

tags: captivity, civilization, exploitation, philosophy

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