A galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars – billions upon billions of stars. Every star may be a sun to someone.
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 universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
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Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.
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The visions we offer our children shape the future.
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Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).
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Every star may be a sun to someone.
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One of the great commandments of science is: Mistrust arguments from authority.
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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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Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
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Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
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When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion.
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The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.
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Knowing 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.
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The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.
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And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
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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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