The visions we offer our children shape the future.
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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You are worth about 3 dollars worth in chemicals.
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Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
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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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There are as many atoms in one molecule of DNA as there are stars in a typical galaxy.
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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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Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgement, the manner in which information is coordinated and used.
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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
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We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
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One of the great commandments of science is: Mistrust arguments from authority.
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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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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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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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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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Writing is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
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The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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