We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
CARL SAGANYou have to know the past to understand the present.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean. We are ready at last to set sail for the stars.
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Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
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All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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We live in a vast and awesome universe in which, daily, suns are made and worlds destroyed, where humanity clings to an obscure clod of rock.
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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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There are as many atoms in one molecule of DNA as there are stars in a typical galaxy.
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The significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage.
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To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.
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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
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The very act of understanding is a celebration of joining, merging, even if on a very modest scale, with the magnificence of the Cosmos.
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We can’t help it. Life looks for life.
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A galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars – billions upon billions of stars. Every star may be a sun to someone.
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