Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you’re in love, you want to tell the world.
CARL SAGANThe Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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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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For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
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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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When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion.
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If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.
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What an astonishing thing a book is.
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Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
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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 universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).
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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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If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go.
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I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture and our concern for the future can all be tested by how well we support our libraries.
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