When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion.
CARL SAGANBe grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.
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I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
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Arguments from authority carry little weight, authorities have made mistakes in the past. They will do so again in the future. Perhaps a better way to say it is that in science there are no authorities; at most, there are experts.
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Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
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Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.
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There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.
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We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good.
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We are all stardust.
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Every kid starts out as a natural-born scientist, and then we beat it out of them. A few trickle through the system with their wonder and enthusiasm for science intact.
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The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life.
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Writing is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
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We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
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All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.
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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
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