Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
CARL SAGANScience 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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To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.
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We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
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There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.
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The visions we offer our children shape the future.
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Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
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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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A galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars – billions upon billions of stars. Every star may be a sun to someone.
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Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.
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The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
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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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Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
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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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And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
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Writing is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
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A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called “leaves”) imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles.
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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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Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
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Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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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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Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you’re in love, you want to tell the world.
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Writing is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
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Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.
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Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
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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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