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.
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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Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
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The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.
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Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
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We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
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I don’t want to believe. I want to know.
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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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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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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
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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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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
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We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers.
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We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
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