We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
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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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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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
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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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Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
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Every kid starts out as a natural-born scientist, and then we beat it out of them. A few trickle through the system with their wonder and enthusiasm for science intact.
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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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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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Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good.
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Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
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We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
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