One of the greatest gifts adults can give – to their offspring and to their society – is to read to children.
CARL SAGANAll civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.
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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If I finish a book a week, I will read only a few thousand books in my lifetime, about a tenth of a percent of the contents of the greatest libraries of our time. The trick is to know which books to read.
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Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
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I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves.
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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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Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
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When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion.
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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Don’t judge everyone else by your own limited experience.
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Nature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
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The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
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Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
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We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
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Your god is too small for my universe.
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All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.
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