Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.
CARL SAGANThe visions we offer our children shape the future.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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Don’t judge everyone else by your own limited experience.
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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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Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
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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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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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We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
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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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Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
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People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.
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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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One of the great commandments of science is: Mistrust arguments from authority.
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I don’t want to believe. I want to know.
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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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Nature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
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