We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
CARL SAGANFor me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
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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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Nature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
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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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We are all stardust.
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Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgement, the manner in which information is coordinated and used.
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We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.
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The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.
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There are as many atoms in one molecule of DNA as there are stars in a typical galaxy.
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To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.
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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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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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All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.
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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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