Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
CARL SAGANThe Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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The visions we offer our children shape the future.
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The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.
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Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
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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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Our ancestors lived out of doors. They were as familiar with the night sky as most of us are with our favorite television programs.
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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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We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.
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Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
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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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For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
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Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
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Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
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Every 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.
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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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There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.
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