There are as many atoms in one molecule of DNA as there are stars in a typical galaxy.
CARL SAGANThe visions we offer our children shape the future.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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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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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 live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
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Don’t judge everyone else by your own limited experience.
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Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgement, the manner in which information is coordinated and used.
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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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Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.
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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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Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
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We are all stardust.
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The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it.
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Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
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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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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
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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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