The visions we offer our children shape the future.
CARL SAGANWe are all stardust.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
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The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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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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Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
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Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean. We are ready at last to set sail for the stars.
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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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Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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Writing is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
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Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
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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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