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.
CARL SAGANStars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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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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Writing is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
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Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.
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What an astonishing thing a book is.
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Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
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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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Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
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Every star may be a sun to someone.
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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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We can’t help it. Life looks for life.
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We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
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Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
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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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