Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
CARL SAGANThe beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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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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If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
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Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
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Arguments from authority carry little weight, authorities have made mistakes in the past. They will do so again in the future. Perhaps a better way to say it is that in science there are no authorities; at most, there are experts.
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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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One of the greatest gifts adults can give – to their offspring and to their society – is to read to children.
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Science is a way to not fool ourselves.
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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
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The total number of stars in the Universe is larger than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth.
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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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Our ancestors lived out of doors. They were as familiar with the night sky as most of us are with our favorite television programs.
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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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We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
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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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Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
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