You have to know the past to understand the present.
CARL SAGANWhen we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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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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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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Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
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Science is a way to not fool ourselves.
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Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.
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We live in a vast and awesome universe in which, daily, suns are made and worlds destroyed, where humanity clings to an obscure clod of rock.
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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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A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called “leaves”) imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles.
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Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
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We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
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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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To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.
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Every star may be a sun to someone.
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We all have a thirst for wonder. It’s a deeply human quality. Science and religion are both bound up with it.
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You are worth about 3 dollars worth in chemicals.
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