All over the world there are enormous numbers of smart, even gifted, people who harbor a passion for science.
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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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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The visions we offer our children shape the future.
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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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When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion.
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Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
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We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
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We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
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Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
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Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.
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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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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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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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Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.
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