Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you’re in love, you want to tell the world.
CARL SAGANOur ancestors lived out of doors. They were as familiar with the night sky as most of us are with our favorite television programs.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Every star may be a sun to someone.
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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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We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.
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All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.
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If I finish a book a week, I will read only a few thousand books in my lifetime, about a tenth of a percent of the contents of the greatest libraries of our time. The trick is to know which books to read.
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We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
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If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go.
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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 Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life.
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The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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The universe is a pretty big place. If it’s just us, seems like an awful waste of space.
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Science is a way to not fool ourselves.
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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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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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