One of the greatest gifts adults can give – to their offspring and to their society – is to read to children.
CARL SAGANThe beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
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The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life.
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Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
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The visions we offer our children shape the future.
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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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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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One 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.
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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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Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.
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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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You have to know the past to understand the present.
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And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
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Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
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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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