What an astonishing thing a book is.
CARL SAGANA galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars – billions upon billions of stars. Every star may be a sun to someone.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
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One of the great commandments of science is: Mistrust arguments from authority.
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Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
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Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
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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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Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
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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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Science is a way to not fool ourselves.
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Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
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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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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 universe is a pretty big place. If it’s just us, seems like an awful waste of space.
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We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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I don’t want to believe. I want to know.
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