If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
CARL SAGANI think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture and our concern for the future can all be tested by how well we support our libraries.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.
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Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
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One of the great commandments of science is: Mistrust arguments from authority.
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I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture and our concern for the future can all be tested by how well we support our libraries.
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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 all have a thirst for wonder. It’s a deeply human quality. Science and religion are both bound up with it.
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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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What an astonishing thing a book is.
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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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To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.
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Every star may be a sun to someone.
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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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Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
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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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I don’t want to believe. I want to know.
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