All over the world there are enormous numbers of smart, even gifted, people who harbor a passion for science.
CARL SAGANThe total number of stars in the Universe is larger than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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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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Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
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One of the great commandments of science is: Mistrust arguments from authority.
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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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Your god is too small for my universe.
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The very act of understanding is a celebration of joining, merging, even if on a very modest scale, with the magnificence of the Cosmos.
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I don’t want to believe. I want to know.
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Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
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Nature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
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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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People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.
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We all have a thirst for wonder. It’s a deeply human quality. Science and religion are both bound up with it.
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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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If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.
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