We all have a thirst for wonder. It’s a deeply human quality. Science and religion are both bound up with it.
CARL SAGANTo live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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The visions we offer our children shape the future.
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The very act of understanding is a celebration of joining, merging, even if on a very modest scale, with the magnificence of the Cosmos.
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The total number of stars in the Universe is larger than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth.
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The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
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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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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called “leaves”) imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles.
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Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
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We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
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Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life.
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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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Writing is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
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Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
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Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
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