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.
CARL SAGANOne of the greatest gifts adults can give – to their offspring and to their society – is to read to children.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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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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Nature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
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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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For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
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A galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars – billions upon billions of stars. Every star may be a sun to someone.
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What an astonishing thing a book is.
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All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.
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Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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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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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
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Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.
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For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
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I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
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Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
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Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.
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