Our ancestors lived out of doors. They were as familiar with the night sky as most of us are with our favorite television programs.
CARL SAGANDon’t judge everyone else by your own limited experience.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.
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Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
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Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
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And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
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The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.
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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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We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good.
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All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.
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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 permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
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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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Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.
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You have to know the past to understand the present.
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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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