Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
CARL SAGANNot all birds can fly. What separates the flyers from the walkers is the ability to take off.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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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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We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
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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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There are as many atoms in one molecule of DNA as there are stars in a typical galaxy.
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Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
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Nature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
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When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion.
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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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There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.
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Perhaps the depth of love can be calibrated by the number of different selves that are actively involved in a given relationship.
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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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People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.
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Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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The visions we offer our children shape the future.
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