If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
CARL SAGANEvery 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.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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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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We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
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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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Not all birds can fly. What separates the flyers from the walkers is the ability to take off.
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All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.
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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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Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).
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What an astonishing thing a book is.
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If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go.
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The visions we offer our children shape the future.
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
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Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
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We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
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