One of the greatest gifts adults can give – to their offspring and to their society – is to read to children.
CARL SAGANThe notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.
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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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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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Don’t judge everyone else by your own limited experience.
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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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Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
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For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
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If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
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I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
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We are all stardust.
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Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.
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Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.
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We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
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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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We all have a thirst for wonder. It’s a deeply human quality. Science and religion are both bound up with it.
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