The visions we offer our children shape the future.
CARL SAGANExploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean. We are ready at last to set sail for the stars.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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The total number of stars in the Universe is larger than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth.
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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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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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Your god is too small for my universe.
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I’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
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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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The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.
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We are all stardust.
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Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
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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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Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you’re in love, you want to tell the world.
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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
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One of the great commandments of science is: Mistrust arguments from authority.
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