A galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars – billions upon billions of stars. Every star may be a sun to someone.
CARL SAGANImagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
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One of the greatest gifts adults can give – to their offspring and to their society – is to read to children.
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If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.
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We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
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Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.
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The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.
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I don’t want to believe. I want to know.
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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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We all have a thirst for wonder. It’s a deeply human quality. Science and religion are both bound up with it.
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Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
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Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
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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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We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion.
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