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Carl Sagan Quote - The visions we offer our children shape the future.

The visions we offer our children shape the future.

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The universe is a pretty big place. If it’s just us, seems like an awful waste of space.
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Awful Place Pretty Science Space Universe Waste
Science is a way to not fool ourselves.
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Fools One Liner Ourselves Science
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
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Apple Invention Science Scratch Universe
Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
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Distance Greatness Ignorance Mistake Perspective
Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).
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Certain Except False Mathematics Pure
Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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Ash Rise Science Stars
Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
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Exception Exrinction Rule Survival
We are all stardust.
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One Liner Stardust
Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
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Deception Demonstrate Emotion Human
Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.
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Avoid Cause Human Ignorance Misery Ourselves Particular Stupidity
Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
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Atheist Emotion Fools Liable Ourselves Strong
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
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Astronomy Incredible Inspirational Science
I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture and our concern for the future can all be tested by how well we support our libraries.
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Awareness Book Civilization Concern Culture Depth Future Health Library Test
Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
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Equality Inspirational Smart Stupidity
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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Awesome Cling Destroy Humanity Live Rock Sun Universe Vast World
Writing is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
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Blind Citizen Distant Greatness Human Invention People Togetherness Writing
I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
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Information Science Suggestion Worship
Don’t judge everyone else by your own limited experience.
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Experience Judgement Life Limitation
One of the great commandments of science is: Mistrust arguments from authority.
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Argument Authority Command Greatness Science Trust
If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.
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Accumulate Destroy Ourselves Power Sure Wisdom
When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion.
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Distant Fusion Look Night Nuclear Science Shine Stars
The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
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Ambition Harmony Human Perfection Requirement Universe
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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Atom Beauty Cosmic Couple Live Marriage Togetherness
Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
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Book Break Human Magic Proof Time Work
The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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Couple Each Other Enptiness Finding Relationship Valentine
We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers.
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Courage Depth Significance World
Arguments from authority carry little weight, authorities have made mistakes in the past. They will do so again in the future. Perhaps a better way to say it is that in science there are no authorities; at most, there are experts.
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Argument Authority Expert Future Mistake Past Weight

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