Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
CARL SAGANWe all have a thirst for wonder. It’s a deeply human quality. Science and religion are both bound up with it.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.
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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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I don’t want to believe. I want to know.
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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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You are worth about 3 dollars worth in chemicals.
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For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
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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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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
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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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There are as many atoms in one molecule of DNA as there are stars in a typical galaxy.
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If I finish a book a week, I will read only a few thousand books in my lifetime, about a tenth of a percent of the contents of the greatest libraries of our time. The trick is to know which books to read.
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When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion.
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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 an attempt, largely successful, to understand the world, to get a grip on things, to get hold of ourselves, to steer a safe course.
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