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One of the greatest gifts adults can give – to their offspring and to their society – is to read to children.

Carl Sagan

A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called “leaves”) imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles.
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Assemble Book Leaf Print Tree
I’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
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Atheist Conviction Courage
One of the greatest gifts adults can give – to their offspring and to their society – is to read to children.
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Adult Children Gift Reading Society Spring
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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Beat Born Enthusiam Kids Natural Science Scientist Start System Wonder
Science is an attempt, largely successful, to understand the world, to get a grip on things, to get hold of ourselves, to steer a safe course.
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Attempt Course Ourselves Safe Science Success Understand World
Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.
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Book Century Flower Lie Promise Seed Soil
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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Compose Dust Galaxy Gas Stars Sun
Don’t judge everyone else by your own limited experience.
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Experience Judgement Life Limitation
We all have a thirst for wonder. It’s a deeply human quality. Science and religion are both bound up with it.
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Bound Human Quality Religion Science Thirist Wonder
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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Body Knowledge Science Thinking
Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.
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Disturb Glory Stupidity
The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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Couple Each Other Enptiness Finding Relationship Valentine
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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Cosmic Disagree Finding Galaxy Human Love Mercy Perspective Precious
Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).
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Certain Except False Mathematics Pure
We can’t help it. Life looks for life.
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Help Life Look Science
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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Assume Come Consideration Danger Extreme Ourselves Outside Problem Solution

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