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

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

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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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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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You are worth about 3 dollars worth in chemicals.
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Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
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You have to know the past to understand the present.
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People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.
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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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We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.
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Nature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
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I don’t want to believe. I want to know.
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To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.
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For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
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The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.
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If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.
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I’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
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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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One of the greatest gifts adults can give – to their offspring and to their society – is to read to children.
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The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.
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We are all stardust.
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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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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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Your god is too small for my universe.
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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
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The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
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The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
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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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