The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life.
CARL SAGANOne glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
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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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Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
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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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I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
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Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
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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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I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture and our concern for the future can all be tested by how well we support our libraries.
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Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.
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We can’t help it. Life looks for life.
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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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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
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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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Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
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