Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
CARL SAGANThe universe is a pretty big place. If it’s just us, seems like an awful waste of space.
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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There are as many atoms in one molecule of DNA as there are stars in a typical galaxy.
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We live in a vast and awesome universe in which, daily, suns are made and worlds destroyed, where humanity clings to an obscure clod of rock.
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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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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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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean. We are ready at last to set sail for the stars.
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We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
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Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
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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 visions we offer our children shape the future.
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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
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The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
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Don’t judge everyone else by your own limited experience.
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If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.
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