If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
CARL SAGANThe total number of stars in the Universe is larger than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.
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Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
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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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Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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Nature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
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Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
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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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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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The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it.
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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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Every star may be a sun to someone.
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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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One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.
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