The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it.
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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There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.
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Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.
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Science is a way to not fool ourselves.
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For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
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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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We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good.
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Not all birds can fly. What separates the flyers from the walkers is the ability to take off.
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When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion.
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You are worth about 3 dollars worth in chemicals.
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If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
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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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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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Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
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Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
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The significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage.
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