If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go.
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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I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
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The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
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A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called “leaves”) imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles.
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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 an attempt, largely successful, to understand the world, to get a grip on things, to get hold of ourselves, to steer a safe course.
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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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Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
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Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
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You have to know the past to understand the present.
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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
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The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.
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Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
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Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.
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