Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
CARL SAGANWe live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
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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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Don’t judge everyone else by your own limited experience.
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Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
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Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
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We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers.
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The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it.
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One of the greatest gifts adults can give – to their offspring and to their society – is to read to children.
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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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What an astonishing thing a book is.
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The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean. We are ready at last to set sail for the stars.
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We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
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Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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