Not all birds can fly. What separates the flyers from the walkers is the ability to take off.
CARL SAGANThe price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
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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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We live in a vast and awesome universe in which, daily, suns are made and worlds destroyed, where humanity clings to an obscure clod of rock.
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Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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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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Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
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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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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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Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
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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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Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.
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You are worth about 3 dollars worth in chemicals.
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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
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The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
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Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
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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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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 Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life.
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Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
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A galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars – billions upon billions of stars. Every star may be a sun to someone.
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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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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When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion.
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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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Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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