The visions we offer our children shape the future.
CARL SAGANYou have to know the past to understand the present.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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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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If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
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Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
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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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Every star may be a sun to someone.
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Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
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We live in a vast and awesome universe in which, daily, suns are made and worlds destroyed, where humanity clings to an obscure clod of rock.
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For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
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There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.
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The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.
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What an astonishing thing a book is.
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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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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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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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Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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