All over the world there are enormous numbers of smart, even gifted, people who harbor a passion for science.
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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Your god is too small for my universe.
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Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.
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The very act of understanding is a celebration of joining, merging, even if on a very modest scale, with the magnificence of the Cosmos.
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We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
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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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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 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 notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.
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Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
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Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.
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Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
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I’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
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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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Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
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