One of the greatest gifts adults can give – to their offspring and to their society – is to read to children.
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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Every star may be a sun to someone.
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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 are all stardust.
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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
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If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.
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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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Writing is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
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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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We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
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The visions we offer our children shape the future.
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We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers.
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Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
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Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you’re in love, you want to tell the world.
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Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
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