Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you’re in love, you want to tell the world.
CARL SAGANThe visions we offer our children shape the future.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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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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The total number of stars in the Universe is larger than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth.
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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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There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.
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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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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 nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.
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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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We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good.
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The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life.
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Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
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The significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage.
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean. We are ready at last to set sail for the stars.
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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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