The significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage.
CARL SAGANScience is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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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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Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
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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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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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To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.
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Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
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Nature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
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The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
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Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
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The universe is a pretty big place. If it’s just us, seems like an awful waste of space.
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The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life.
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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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There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.
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