The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.
CARL SAGANThe visions we offer our children shape the future.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion.
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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.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
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Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
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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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Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
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All over the world there are enormous numbers of smart, even gifted, people who harbor a passion for science.
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Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
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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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And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
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Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.
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I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
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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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The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
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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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