We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
CARL SAGANThe visions we offer our children shape the future.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
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If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go.
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Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
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For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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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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Our ancestors lived out of doors. They were as familiar with the night sky as most of us are with our favorite television programs.
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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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Nature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
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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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To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.
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Every star may be a sun to someone.
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We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers.
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I’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
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Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
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