We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers.
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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The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what’s true.
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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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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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I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves.
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Every kid starts out as a natural-born scientist, and then we beat it out of them. A few trickle through the system with their wonder and enthusiasm for science intact.
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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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Nature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
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All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.
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I’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
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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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Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.
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We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
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The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
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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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