Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
CARL SAGANEvery 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.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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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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Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
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If I finish a book a week, I will read only a few thousand books in my lifetime, about a tenth of a percent of the contents of the greatest libraries of our time. The trick is to know which books to read.
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The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.
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Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.
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Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
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The total number of stars in the Universe is larger than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth.
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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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Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
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Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
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If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go.
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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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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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Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
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To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.
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