Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you’re in love, you want to tell the world.
CARL SAGANYour god is too small for my universe.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean. We are ready at last to set sail for the stars.
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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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If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
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Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
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Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.
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Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
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One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.
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Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
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We are all stardust.
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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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Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.
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People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.
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We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.
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The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life.
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When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion.
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