Science is an attempt, largely successful, to understand the world, to get a grip on things, to get hold of ourselves, to steer a safe course.
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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The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it.
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Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
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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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The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
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The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.
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The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
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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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You are worth about 3 dollars worth in chemicals.
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Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
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The visions we offer our children shape the future.
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I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
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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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We are all stardust.
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