I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.
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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.Carl Sagan
If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?
Carl Sagan
The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
Carl Sagan
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.
Carl Sagan
Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.
Carl Sagan
The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
Carl Sagan
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