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Carl Sagan Quote - All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.

All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.

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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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desperatel Determination Preference Prejudice Puzzle True Truth Want Work
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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Beat Born Enthusiam Kids Natural Science Scientist Start System Wonder
Science is a way to not fool ourselves.
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Fools One Liner Ourselves Science
Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
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Awake Citizen Deserve Mind Species Understand Work World
Don’t judge everyone else by your own limited experience.
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Experience Judgement Life Limitation
Not all birds can fly. What separates the flyers from the walkers is the ability to take off.
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Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.
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Advance Agriculture History Live Lost Medicine Save Science Vast War
The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it.
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Anticipation Anxiety Future Pay Price
We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers.
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Courage Depth Significance World
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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Bound Human Quality Religion Science Thirist Wonder
Writing is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
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Blind Citizen Distant Greatness Human Invention People Togetherness Writing
Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
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Across Sea Space Stars Sun
Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
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Book Break Human Magic Proof Time Work
Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
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Compatible Profound Science Soource Spiritual
A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called “leaves”) imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles.
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Assemble Book Leaf Print Tree
We can’t help it. Life looks for life.
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Help Life Look Science
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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Ancestor Door Family Favourite Live Night Program Sky Television
Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.
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Disturb Glory Stupidity
We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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Dust Live Sun Suspend
We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.
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Harvest Stars Stuff Sunlight
I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
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Information Science Suggestion Worship
The significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage.
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The visions we offer our children shape the future.
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Children Future Inspirational Ofer Shape Vision
If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go.
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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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Dependent Exquisite Live Science Society Technology
The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life.
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Earth Harbor Life
One of the greatest gifts adults can give – to their offspring and to their society – is to read to children.
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