Not all birds can fly. What separates the flyers from the walkers is the ability to take off.
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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Writing is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
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The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.
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We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
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We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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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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The very act of understanding is a celebration of joining, merging, even if on a very modest scale, with the magnificence of the Cosmos.
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Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
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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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Science is a way to not fool ourselves.
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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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One of the great commandments of science is: Mistrust arguments from authority.
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If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go.
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I don’t want to believe. I want to know.
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What an astonishing thing a book is.
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All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.
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