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.
CARL SAGANWriting is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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I don’t want to believe. I want to know.
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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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The significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage.
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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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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
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We all have a thirst for wonder. It’s a deeply human quality. Science and religion are both bound up with it.
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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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There are as many atoms in one molecule of DNA as there are stars in a typical galaxy.
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The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
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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 make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers.
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