Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
CARL SAGANStars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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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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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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Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
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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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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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All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.
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We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers.
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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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The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it.
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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 universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
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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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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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The significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage.
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The visions we offer our children shape the future.
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