The visions we offer our children shape the future.
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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Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
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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 significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage.
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And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
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If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go.
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The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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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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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
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An atheist is someone who is certain that God does not exist, someone who has compelling evidence against the existence of God.
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Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
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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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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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Every star may be a sun to someone.
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There are as many atoms in one molecule of DNA as there are stars in a typical galaxy.
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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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A galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars – billions upon billions of stars. Every star may be a sun to someone.
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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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Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.
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We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.
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I don’t want to believe. I want to know.
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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 are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
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The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it.
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Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
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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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The universe is a pretty big place. If it’s just us, seems like an awful waste of space.
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