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Carl Sagan Quote - Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.

Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.

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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
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Apple Invention Science Scratch Universe
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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Apple Blood Calcium DNA Interior Nitrogen Stars Teeth
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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Claim Evidence Extraordinary One Liner Requirement Science
Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.
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Book Century Flower Lie Promise Seed Soil
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
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Business Carry Imagination Inspirational World
The universe is a pretty big place. If it’s just us, seems like an awful waste of space.
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Awful Place Pretty Science Space Universe Waste
The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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One of the greatest gifts adults can give – to their offspring and to their society – is to read to children.
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Adult Children Gift Reading Society Spring
Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgement, the manner in which information is coordinated and used.
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Alone Coordinate Deal Greatness Information Intelligence Judgement Knowledge Manner Smart Used
I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
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Information Science Suggestion Worship
We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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Dust Live Sun Suspend
We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.
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Harvest Stars Stuff Sunlight
Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.
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Disturb Glory Stupidity
We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
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Destiny Hands Science Stars Stuff
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
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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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Ancestor Door Family Favourite Live Night Program Sky Television
When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion.
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Distant Fusion Look Night Nuclear Science Shine Stars
Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
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Across Sea Space Stars Sun
Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
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Ecstasy Kind One Liner Understand
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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Assume Come Consideration Danger Extreme Ourselves Outside Problem Solution
The significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage.
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Courage Determination Fragile Live Planet Significance Wisdom
Every star may be a sun to someone.
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Deep One Liner Stars Sun
Perhaps the depth of love can be calibrated by the number of different selves that are actively involved in a given relationship.
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The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
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Ambition Harmony Human Perfection Requirement Universe
What an astonishing thing a book is.
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Astonish Book One Liner
An atheist is someone who is certain that God does not exist, someone who has compelling evidence against the existence of God.
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Against Atheist Certain Evidence Existence God
Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).
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Certain Except False Mathematics Pure

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