Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
CARL SAGANAll over the world there are enormous numbers of smart, even gifted, people who harbor a passion for science.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers.
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Our ancestors lived out of doors. They were as familiar with the night sky as most of us are with our favorite television programs.
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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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The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.
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Every star may be a sun to someone.
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For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
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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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One of the great commandments of science is: Mistrust arguments from authority.
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Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean. We are ready at last to set sail for the stars.
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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Perhaps the depth of love can be calibrated by the number of different selves that are actively involved in a given relationship.
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We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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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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