The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
CARL SAGANKnowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgement, the manner in which information is coordinated and used.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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You are worth about 3 dollars worth in chemicals.
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We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
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We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
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If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go.
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Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
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Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
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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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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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Science is a way to not fool ourselves.
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To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.
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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
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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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The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
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I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture and our concern for the future can all be tested by how well we support our libraries.
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