When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion.
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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Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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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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One of the great commandments of science is: Mistrust arguments from authority.
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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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Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.
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To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.
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There are as many atoms in one molecule of DNA as there are stars in a typical galaxy.
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If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.
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We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers.
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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 a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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All over the world there are enormous numbers of smart, even gifted, people who harbor a passion for science.
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Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
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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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Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
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