People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.
CARL SAGANBooks permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
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Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.
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We can’t help it. Life looks for life.
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The significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage.
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If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go.
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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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All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.
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The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
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We all have a thirst for wonder. It’s a deeply human quality. Science and religion are both bound up with it.
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The visions we offer our children shape the future.
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Science is a way to not fool ourselves.
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I don’t want to believe. I want to know.
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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.
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I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
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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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