The visions we offer our children shape the future.
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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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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We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers.
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Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
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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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Arguments from authority carry little weight, authorities have made mistakes in the past. They will do so again in the future. Perhaps a better way to say it is that in science there are no authorities; at most, there are experts.
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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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Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.
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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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Science is a way to not fool ourselves.
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Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
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Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.
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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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Every star may be a sun to someone.
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We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.
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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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