There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.
CARL SAGANStars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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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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Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.
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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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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
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We all have a thirst for wonder. It’s a deeply human quality. Science and religion are both bound up with it.
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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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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 notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.
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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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Nature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
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Science is an attempt, largely successful, to understand the world, to get a grip on things, to get hold of ourselves, to steer a safe course.
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Not all birds can fly. What separates the flyers from the walkers is the ability to take off.
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life.
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Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
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