The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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 cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
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The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.
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Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
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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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There are as many atoms in one molecule of DNA as there are stars in a typical galaxy.
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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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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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You have to know the past to understand the present.
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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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All over the world there are enormous numbers of smart, even gifted, people who harbor a passion for science.
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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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Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
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We are all stardust.
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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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The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
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