The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life.
CARL SAGANOther things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
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I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves.
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People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.
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Our ancestors lived out of doors. They were as familiar with the night sky as most of us are with our favorite television programs.
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When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion.
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We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
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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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What an astonishing thing a book is.
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The total number of stars in the Universe is larger than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth.
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Nature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
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I’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
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We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
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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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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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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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