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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We are all stardust.
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If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
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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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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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Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
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If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go.
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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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Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean. We are ready at last to set sail for the stars.
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Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
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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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The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life.
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Every star may be a sun to someone.
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For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
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Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
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