Science is an attempt, largely successful, to understand the world, to get a grip on things, to get hold of ourselves, to steer a safe course.
CARL SAGANEvery star may be a sun to someone.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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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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The universe is a pretty big place. If it’s just us, seems like an awful waste of space.
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Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
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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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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 make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers.
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You are worth about 3 dollars worth in chemicals.
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Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool 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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The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
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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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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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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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The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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