Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
CARL SAGANThe absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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One of the greatest gifts adults can give – to their offspring and to their society – is to read to children.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
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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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Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
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There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.
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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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The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.
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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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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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We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
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If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go.
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We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers.
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To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.
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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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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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