The very act of understanding is a celebration of joining, merging, even if on a very modest scale, with the magnificence of the Cosmos.
CARL SAGANOur species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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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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Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you’re in love, you want to tell the world.
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Not all birds can fly. What separates the flyers from the walkers is the ability to take off.
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People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.
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Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
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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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We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
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Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgement, the manner in which information is coordinated and used.
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We all have a thirst for wonder. It’s a deeply human quality. Science and religion are both bound up with it.
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Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
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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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I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves.
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You are worth about 3 dollars worth in chemicals.
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If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go.
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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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