Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
CARL SAGANThere are as many atoms in one molecule of DNA as there are stars in a typical galaxy.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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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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Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you’re in love, you want to tell the world.
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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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Exploration 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.
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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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One of the greatest gifts adults can give – to their offspring and to their society – is to read to children.
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I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
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We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.
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The very act of understanding is a celebration of joining, merging, even if on a very modest scale, with the magnificence of the Cosmos.
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People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.
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Nature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
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The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.
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Every kid starts out as a natural-born scientist, and then we beat it out of them. A few trickle through the system with their wonder and enthusiasm for science intact.
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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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