There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.
CARL SAGANAll civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
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We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
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To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.
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The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life.
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Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.
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One of the great commandments of science is: Mistrust arguments from authority.
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Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
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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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Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
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Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
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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 are star stuff harvesting sunlight.
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All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.
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We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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What an astonishing thing a book is.
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