A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called “leaves”) imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles.
CARL SAGANSomewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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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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Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
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Our ancestors lived out of doors. They were as familiar with the night sky as most of us are with our favorite television programs.
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The visions we offer our children shape the future.
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Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
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Nature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
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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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Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
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We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
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Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
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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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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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Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you’re in love, you want to tell the world.
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The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.
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