Our ancestors lived out of doors. They were as familiar with the night sky as most of us are with our favorite television programs.
CARL SAGANWe make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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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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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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You are worth about 3 dollars worth in chemicals.
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Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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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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Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
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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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Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.
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One of the great commandments of science is: Mistrust arguments from authority.
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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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Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you’re in love, you want to tell the world.
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What an astonishing thing a book is.
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I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
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The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it.
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