And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
CARL SAGANThe Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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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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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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I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves.
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One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.
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Nature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
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Science is an attempt, largely successful, to understand the world, to get a grip on things, to get hold of ourselves, to steer a safe course.
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The visions we offer our children shape the future.
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We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
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Don’t judge everyone else by your own limited experience.
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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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Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).
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We are all stardust.
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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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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
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Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
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