The visions we offer our children shape the future.
CARL SAGANWriting is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.
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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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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
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The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).
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All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.
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We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good.
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And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
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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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Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you’re in love, you want to tell the world.
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We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
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Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.
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We are all stardust.
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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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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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