Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
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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Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
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Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.
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Your god is too small for my universe.
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Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
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The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life.
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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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Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
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We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good.
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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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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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One of the greatest gifts adults can give – to their offspring and to their society – is to read to children.
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Nature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
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The very act of understanding is a celebration of joining, merging, even if on a very modest scale, with the magnificence of the Cosmos.
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The significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage.
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