We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
CARL SAGANExtinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
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If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go.
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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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I’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
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The significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage.
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Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
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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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Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.
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All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.
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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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Nature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
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The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.
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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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Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
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