We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.
CARL SAGANThe Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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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 universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
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If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go.
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I’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
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Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
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I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
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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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Arguments from authority carry little weight, authorities have made mistakes in the past. They will do so again in the future. Perhaps a better way to say it is that in science there are no authorities; at most, there are experts.
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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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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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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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Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
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To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.
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You have to know the past to understand the present.
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