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.
CARL SAGANI would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
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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Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
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If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
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To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.
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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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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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We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
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We can’t help it. Life looks for life.
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And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
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Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
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The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it.
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All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.
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We live in a vast and awesome universe in which, daily, suns are made and worlds destroyed, where humanity clings to an obscure clod of rock.
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