The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
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
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The visions we offer our children shape the future.
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
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The total number of stars in the Universe is larger than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth.
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People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.
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We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
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You have to know the past to understand the present.
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I don’t want to believe. I want to know.
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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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And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
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Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.
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Nature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
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I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves.
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We live in a vast and awesome universe in which, daily, suns are made and worlds destroyed, where humanity clings to an obscure clod of rock.
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The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
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