Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you’re in love, you want to tell the world.
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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The visions we offer our children shape the future.
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The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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The universe is a pretty big place. If it’s just us, seems like an awful waste of space.
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Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
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The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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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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If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go.
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Not all birds can fly. What separates the flyers from the walkers is the ability to take off.
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Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
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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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If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.
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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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Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
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