What an astonishing thing a book is.
CARL SAGANThe price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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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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We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers.
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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All over the world there are enormous numbers of smart, even gifted, people who harbor a passion for science.
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Writing is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
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If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
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Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
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One of the great commandments of science is: Mistrust arguments from authority.
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All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.
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We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good.
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Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
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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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I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
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To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.
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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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