There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.
CARL SAGANThe visions we offer our children shape the future.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Nature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
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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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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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Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.
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We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.
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The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what’s true.
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Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.
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I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
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People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.
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The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.
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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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Science is an attempt, largely successful, to understand the world, to get a grip on things, to get hold of ourselves, to steer a safe course.
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The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life.
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