Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
CARL SAGANThere are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
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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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One of the greatest gifts adults can give – to their offspring and to their society – is to read to children.
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Don’t judge everyone else by your own limited experience.
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Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.
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If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.
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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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Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.
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The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life.
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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 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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Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.
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Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
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A galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars – billions upon billions of stars. Every star may be a sun to someone.
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All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.
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