The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.
CARL SAGANThe Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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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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Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
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Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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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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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.
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I don’t want to believe. I want to know.
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The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
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Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
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Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
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If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
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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 visions we offer our children shape the future.
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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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The universe is a pretty big place. If it’s just us, seems like an awful waste of space.
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