The visions we offer our children shape the future.
CARL SAGANExtinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called “leaves”) imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles.
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Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
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The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.
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Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
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Nature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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You have to know the past to understand the present.
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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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Science is a way to not fool ourselves.
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We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
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If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
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Perhaps the depth of love can be calibrated by the number of different selves that are actively involved in a given relationship.
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Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
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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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