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All over the world there are enormous numbers of smart, even gifted, people who harbor a passion for science.

Carl Sagan

One of the greatest gifts adults can give – to their offspring and to their society – is to read to children.
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Adult Children Gift Reading Society Spring
Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
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Compatible Profound Science Soource Spiritual
The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life.
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Earth Harbor Life
Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
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Book Break Human Magic Proof Time Work
There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.
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Delicate Forbidden Matter Scare Science Sensitive Truth
Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
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Deception Demonstrate Emotion Human
The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what’s true.
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desperatel Determination Preference Prejudice Puzzle True Truth Want Work
Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you’re in love, you want to tell the world.
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Explanation Love Peverse Science Want World
For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
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Creature Love Vast
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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Dependent Exquisite Live Science Society Technology
The visions we offer our children shape the future.
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Children Future Inspirational Ofer Shape Vision
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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Ancestor Door Family Favourite Live Night Program Sky Television
I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves.
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Assume Come Consideration Danger Extreme Ourselves Outside Problem Solution
Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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Ash Rise Science Stars
We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
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Cosmic Deep Science
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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Book Content Finish Library Lifetime Percent Reading Time Trick Week

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