I’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
CARL SAGANOther things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called “leaves”) imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles.
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Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
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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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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
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The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life.
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An atheist is someone who is certain that God does not exist, someone who has compelling evidence against the existence of God.
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We can’t help it. Life looks for life.
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I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
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The significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage.
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All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.
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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.
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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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The universe is a pretty big place. If it’s just us, seems like an awful waste of space.
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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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