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One of the greatest gifts adults can give – to their offspring and to their society – is to read to children.

Carl Sagan

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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Assemble Book Leaf Print Tree
Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you’re in love, you want to tell the world.
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Explanation Love Peverse Science Want World
The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life.
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Earth Harbor Life
We are all stardust.
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One Liner Stardust
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
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Assure Delusion Grasp Persistence Satisfaction Universe
Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean. We are ready at last to set sail for the stars.
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Cosmic Enough Explore Investigation Nature Ocean Ready Sail Shore Stars Wander
Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.
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Avoid Cause Human Ignorance Misery Ourselves Particular Stupidity
Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.
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Accommodation Admire Enough Faith God Strive Truth Universe
A galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars – billions upon billions of stars. Every star may be a sun to someone.
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Compose Dust Galaxy Gas Stars Sun
Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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Ash Rise Science Stars
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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Book Content Finish Library Lifetime Percent Reading Time Trick Week
The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
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Ambition Harmony Human Perfection Requirement Universe
The significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage.
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Courage Determination Fragile Live Planet Significance Wisdom
There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.
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Delicate Forbidden Matter Scare Science Sensitive Truth
Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).
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Certain Except False Mathematics Pure
An atheist is someone who is certain that God does not exist, someone who has compelling evidence against the existence of God.
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Against Atheist Certain Evidence Existence God

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