One of the greatest gifts adults can give – to their offspring and to their society – is to read to children.
CARL SAGANThe brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.
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Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
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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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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.
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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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The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.
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You have to know the past to understand the present.
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The visions we offer our children shape the future.
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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 only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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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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Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.
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What an astonishing thing a book is.
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The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
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