Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you’re in love, you want to tell the world.
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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Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean. We are ready at last to set sail for the stars.
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You have to know the past to understand the present.
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Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
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For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
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Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
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Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.
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Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
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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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Nature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
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We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
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Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
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I’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
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One of the great commandments of science is: Mistrust arguments from authority.
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