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.
CARL SAGANIf you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
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All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
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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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Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you’re in love, you want to tell the world.
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Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
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Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
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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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The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
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I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture and our concern for the future can all be tested by how well we support our libraries.
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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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The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
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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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I’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
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