If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
CARL SAGANNot explaining science seems to me perverse. When you’re in love, you want to tell the world.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
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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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All over the world there are enormous numbers of smart, even gifted, people who harbor a passion for science.
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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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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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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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The visions we offer our children shape the future.
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The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.
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Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
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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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Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you’re in love, you want to tell the world.
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To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.
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The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
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For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
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