We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
CARL SAGANThe price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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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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There are as many atoms in one molecule of DNA as there are stars in a typical galaxy.
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Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
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The visions we offer our children shape the future.
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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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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
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Your god is too small for my universe.
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If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go.
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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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Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.
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Perhaps the depth of love can be calibrated by the number of different selves that are actively involved in a given relationship.
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One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.
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The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
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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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The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what’s true.
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