Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
CARL SAGANNot explaining science seems to me perverse. When you’re in love, you want to tell the world.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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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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And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
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Nature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
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We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.
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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 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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The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
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I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
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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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People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.
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The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
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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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Arguments from authority carry little weight, authorities have made mistakes in the past. They will do so again in the future. Perhaps a better way to say it is that in science there are no authorities; at most, there are experts.
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One of the greatest gifts adults can give – to their offspring and to their society – is to read to children.
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Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
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