The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
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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Science is an attempt, largely successful, to understand the world, to get a grip on things, to get hold of ourselves, to steer a safe course.
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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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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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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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There are as many atoms in one molecule of DNA as there are stars in a typical galaxy.
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And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
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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 Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
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We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
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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 cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
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We are all stardust.
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Don’t judge everyone else by your own limited experience.
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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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What an astonishing thing a book is.
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