You are worth about 3 dollars worth in chemicals.
CARL SAGANBooks are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.
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Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
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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 you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
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Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
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Not all birds can fly. What separates the flyers from the walkers is the ability to take off.
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Science is a way to not fool ourselves.
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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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The significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage.
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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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Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.
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Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
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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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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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