The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
CARL SAGANYou have to know the past to understand the present.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
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The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
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The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.
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Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
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The very act of understanding is a celebration of joining, merging, even if on a very modest scale, with the magnificence of the Cosmos.
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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Not all birds can fly. What separates the flyers from the walkers is the ability to take off.
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Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
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A galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars – billions upon billions of stars. Every star may be a sun to someone.
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There are as many atoms in one molecule of DNA as there are stars in a typical galaxy.
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Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
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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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One of the greatest gifts adults can give – to their offspring and to their society – is to read to children.
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Writing is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
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Every star may be a sun to someone.
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Writing is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
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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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There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.
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All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.
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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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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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The universe is a pretty big place. If it’s just us, seems like an awful waste of space.
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Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you’re in love, you want to tell the world.
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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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