The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.
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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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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Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
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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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You are worth about 3 dollars worth in chemicals.
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Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgement, the manner in which information is coordinated and used.
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And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
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Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
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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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You have to know the past to understand the present.
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The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
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We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
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We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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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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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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