Writing is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
CARL SAGANThere are as many atoms in one molecule of DNA as there are stars in a typical galaxy.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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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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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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I don’t want to believe. I want to know.
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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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The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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You are worth about 3 dollars worth in chemicals.
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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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Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
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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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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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We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers.
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The visions we offer our children shape the future.
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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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Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
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The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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