The visions we offer our children shape the future.
CARL SAGANThe universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
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If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go.
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I’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
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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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Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you’re in love, you want to tell the world.
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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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One of the great commandments of science is: Mistrust arguments from authority.
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The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life.
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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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We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
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To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.
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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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The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what’s true.
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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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We can’t help it. Life looks for life.
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