Science is an attempt, largely successful, to understand the world, to get a grip on things, to get hold of ourselves, to steer a safe course.
CARL SAGANStars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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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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For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
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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 live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
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If I finish a book a week, I will read only a few thousand books in my lifetime, about a tenth of a percent of the contents of the greatest libraries of our time. The trick is to know which books to read.
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.
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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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Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
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Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
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We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
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Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
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You have to know the past to understand the present.
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Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
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