Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
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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Writing is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
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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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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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I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
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People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.
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If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.
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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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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 universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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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 a pretty big place. If it’s just us, seems like an awful waste of space.
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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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For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
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We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
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