Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you’re in love, you want to tell the world.
CARL SAGANWe are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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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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We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
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Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
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You have to know the past to understand the present.
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Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
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And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
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All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.
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What an astonishing thing a book is.
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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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Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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