Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
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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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
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The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what’s true.
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Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
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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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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it.
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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.
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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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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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We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life.
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The visions we offer our children shape the future.
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