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.
CARL SAGANYou are worth about 3 dollars worth in chemicals.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.
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There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.
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And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
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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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Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
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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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Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
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We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
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An atheist is someone who is certain that God does not exist, someone who has compelling evidence against the existence of God.
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The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it.
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We can’t help it. Life looks for life.
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Our ancestors lived out of doors. They were as familiar with the night sky as most of us are with our favorite television programs.
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Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
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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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