The visions we offer our children shape the future.
CARL SAGANEvery star may be a sun to someone.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
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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 live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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All over the world there are enormous numbers of smart, even gifted, people who harbor a passion for science.
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Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
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Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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I’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
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The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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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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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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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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For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
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All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.
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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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