The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life.
CARL SAGANI think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture and our concern for the future can all be tested by how well we support our libraries.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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You are worth about 3 dollars worth in chemicals.
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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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The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.
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One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.
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Every star may be a sun to someone.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
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I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves.
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And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
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Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.
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Your god is too small for my universe.
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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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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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Science is a way to not fool ourselves.
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The visions we offer our children shape the future.
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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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