A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called “leaves”) imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles.
CARL SAGANStars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
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Don’t judge everyone else by your own limited experience.
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You are worth about 3 dollars worth in chemicals.
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The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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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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The significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage.
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If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.
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The total number of stars in the Universe is larger than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth.
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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
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We live in a vast and awesome universe in which, daily, suns are made and worlds destroyed, where humanity clings to an obscure clod of rock.
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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
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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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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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Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
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You have to know the past to understand the present.
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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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Writing is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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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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Science is a way to not fool ourselves.
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Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
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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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