The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
CARL SAGANI 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.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
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Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgement, the manner in which information is coordinated and used.
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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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To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.
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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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And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
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Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
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Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
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Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
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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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People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.
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Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
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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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Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.
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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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