The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it.
CARL SAGANThe visions we offer our children shape the future.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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One of the great commandments of science is: Mistrust arguments from authority.
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What an astonishing thing a book is.
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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 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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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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If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go.
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The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.
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Nature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
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Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
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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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Don’t judge everyone else by your own limited experience.
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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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The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
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I don’t want to believe. I want to know.
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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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