Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
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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Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
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Nature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
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People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.
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Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
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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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Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you’re in love, you want to tell the world.
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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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There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.
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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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We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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I’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
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The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.
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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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Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
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