When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion.
CARL SAGANBooks permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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An atheist is someone who is certain that God does not exist, someone who has compelling evidence against the existence of God.
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Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
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Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.
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We can’t help it. Life looks for life.
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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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Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
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The total number of stars in the Universe is larger than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth.
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What an astonishing thing a book is.
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Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
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Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
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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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The visions we offer our children shape the future.
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We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
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I don’t want to believe. I want to know.
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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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