When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion.
CARL SAGANOne of the greatest gifts adults can give – to their offspring and to their society – is to read to children.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
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Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
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And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
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Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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We are all stardust.
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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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Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
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One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
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The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.
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I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves.
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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We live in a vast and awesome universe in which, daily, suns are made and worlds destroyed, where humanity clings to an obscure clod of rock.
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The universe is a pretty big place. If it’s just us, seems like an awful waste of space.
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