Nature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
CARL SAGANThe very act of understanding is a celebration of joining, merging, even if on a very modest scale, with the magnificence of the Cosmos.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
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One of the greatest gifts adults can give – to their offspring and to their society – is to read to children.
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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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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
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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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Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.
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I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
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Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you’re in love, you want to tell the world.
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You have to know the past to understand the present.
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Perhaps the depth of love can be calibrated by the number of different selves that are actively involved in a given relationship.
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Our ancestors lived out of doors. They were as familiar with the night sky as most of us are with our favorite television programs.
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The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it.
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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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One of the great commandments of science is: Mistrust arguments from authority.
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