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.
CARL SAGANExtraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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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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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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Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
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Perhaps the depth of love can be calibrated by the number of different selves that are actively involved in a given relationship.
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Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
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Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgement, the manner in which information is coordinated and used.
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Don’t judge everyone else by your own limited experience.
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Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
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We are all stardust.
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Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
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You are worth about 3 dollars worth in chemicals.
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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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If I finish a book a week, I will read only a few thousand books in my lifetime, about a tenth of a percent of the contents of the greatest libraries of our time. The trick is to know which books to read.
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If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go.
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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
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