People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.
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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There are as many atoms in one molecule of DNA as there are stars in a typical galaxy.
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Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
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I’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
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All over the world there are enormous numbers of smart, even gifted, people who harbor a passion for science.
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We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers.
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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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You are worth about 3 dollars worth in chemicals.
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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.
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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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We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
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The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.
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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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All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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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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