The visions we offer our children shape the future.
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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Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
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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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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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Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
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All over the world there are enormous numbers of smart, even gifted, people who harbor a passion for science.
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Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
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There are as many atoms in one molecule of DNA as there are stars in a typical galaxy.
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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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And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
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I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
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The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what’s true.
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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
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Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
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The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it.
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Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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