Carl Sagan Quotes, Stars Quotes, Years Quotes

After the earth dies, some 5 billion years from now, after it's burned to a crisp, or even swallowed by the Sun, there will be other worlds and stars and galaxies coming into being - and they will know nothing of a place once called Earth.

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We have entered, almost without noticing, an age of exploration and discovery unparalleled since the Renaissance.

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The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand. It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience..... To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.

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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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It seems madness to say, 'We're worried that they're going to become addicted to marijuana' -- there's no evidence whatever that it's an addictive drug, but even if it were, these people are dying, what are we saving them from?

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If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go

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I believe that in every person is a kind of circuit which resonates to intellectual discovery-and the idea is to make that resonance work

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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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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.

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If the greenhouse effect is a blanket in which we wrap ourselves to keep warm, nuclear winter kicks the blanket off.

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Except for fools and madmen, everyone knows that nuclear war would he an unprecedented human catastrophe.

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All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.

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The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.

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I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star.

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The sky calls to us. If we do not destroy ourselves, we will one day venture to the stars.

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My wonder button is being pushed all the time.

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Goddard represented a unique combination of visionary dedication and technological brilliance. He studied physics because he needed physics to get to Mars. In reading the notebooks of Robert Goddard, I am struck by how powerful his exploratory and scientific motivations were - and how influental speculative ideas, even erroneous ones, can be on the shaping of the future.

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Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.

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But I try not to think with my gut. If I'm serious about understanding the world, thinking with anything besides my brain, as tempting as that might be, is likely to get me into trouble.

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Nevertheless, (Jefferson) believed that the habit of skepticism is an essential prerequisite for responsible citizenship. He argued that the cost of education is trivial compared to the cost of ignorance, of leaving government to the wolves. He taught that the country is safe only when the people rule.

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