Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
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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Arguments from authority carry little weight, authorities have made mistakes in the past. They will do so again in the future. Perhaps a better way to say it is that in science there are no authorities; at most, there are experts.
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All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.
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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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All over the world there are enormous numbers of smart, even gifted, people who harbor a passion for science.
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Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
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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 break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
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Nature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
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When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion.
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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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I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture and our concern for the future can all be tested by how well we support our libraries.
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Don’t judge everyone else by your own limited experience.
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And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
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The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life.
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Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
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