Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
CARL SAGANWe live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
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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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Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you’re in love, you want to tell the world.
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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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What an astonishing thing a book is.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
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Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.
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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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The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
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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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Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).
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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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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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The significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage.
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