I don’t want to believe. I want to know.
CARL SAGANNature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
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Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
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Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
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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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Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
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The visions we offer our children shape the future.
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One of the great commandments of science is: Mistrust arguments from authority.
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The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it.
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Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.
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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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Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
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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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We are all stardust.
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