One of the greatest gifts adults can give – to their offspring and to their society – is to read to children.
CARL SAGANThe universe is a pretty big place. If it’s just us, seems like an awful waste of space.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.
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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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Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you’re in love, you want to tell the world.
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The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
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If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.
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Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
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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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People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.
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If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go.
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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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Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
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The total number of stars in the Universe is larger than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth.
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The visions we offer our children shape the future.
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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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There are as many atoms in one molecule of DNA as there are stars in a typical galaxy.
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