Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
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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What an astonishing thing a book is.
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The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what’s true.
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Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.
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We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
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We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.
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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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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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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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And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
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We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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Every 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.
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I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
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We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
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Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
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