One of the greatest gifts adults can give – to their offspring and to their society – is to read to children.
CARL SAGANA book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called “leaves”) imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
-
-
The visions we offer our children shape the future.
CARL SAGAN -
The total number of stars in the Universe is larger than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth.
CARL SAGAN -
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.
CARL SAGAN -
Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
CARL SAGAN -
Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
CARL SAGAN -
Arguments from authority carry little weight, authorities have made mistakes in the past. They will do so again in the future. Perhaps a better way to say it is that in science there are no authorities; at most, there are experts.
CARL SAGAN -
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
CARL SAGAN -
The significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage.
CARL SAGAN -
If I finish a book a week, I will read only a few thousand books in my lifetime, about a tenth of a percent of the contents of the greatest libraries of our time. The trick is to know which books to read.
CARL SAGAN -
The universe is a pretty big place. If it’s just us, seems like an awful waste of space.
CARL SAGAN -
Writing is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
CARL SAGAN -
We can’t help it. Life looks for life.
CARL SAGAN -
And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
CARL SAGAN -
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
CARL SAGAN -
Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.
CARL SAGAN