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Carl Sagan Quote - If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

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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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Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.
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Science is a way to not fool ourselves.
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We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
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Don’t judge everyone else by your own limited experience.
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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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All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.
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A galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars – billions upon billions of stars. Every star may be a sun to someone.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
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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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The very act of understanding is a celebration of joining, merging, even if on a very modest scale, with the magnificence of the Cosmos.
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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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And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
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Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
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Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
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Apple Invention Science Scratch Universe
Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
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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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Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
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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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For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
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If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go.
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We can’t help it. Life looks for life.
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I’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
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We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
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