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.
CARL SAGANAdvances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
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We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
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Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
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You have to know the past to understand the present.
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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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I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture and our concern for the future can all be tested by how well we support our libraries.
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To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.
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The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
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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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Every star may be a sun to someone.
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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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Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
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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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I don’t want to believe. I want to know.
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