Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
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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Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
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Every star may be a sun to someone.
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Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
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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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I’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
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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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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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We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good.
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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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Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
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All over the world there are enormous numbers of smart, even gifted, people who harbor a passion for science.
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The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.
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Your god is too small for my universe.
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