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Children Quotes by Carl Sagan
- We should be teaching our children the scientific method and the reasons for a Bill of Rights. With it comes a certain decency, humility and…
- If you want to save your child from polio, you can pray or you can inoculate....Try science.
- Recent research shows that many children who do not have enough to eat wind up with diminished capacity to understand and learn. Children don't have…
- Our children long for realistic maps of the future that they can be proud of. Where are the cartographers of human purpose?
- Except for children (who don't know enough not to ask the important questions), few of us spendtime wondering why nature is the way it is…
- One of the greatest gifts adults can give - to their offspring and to their society - is to read to children.
- Scientists can routinely predict a solar eclipse, to the minute, a millennium in advance. You can go to the witch doctor to lift the spell…
- Our ancestors worshipped the Sun, and they were not that foolish. It makes sense to revere the Sun and the stars, for we are their…
- A proclivity for science is embedded deeply within us, in all times, places, and cultures. It has been the means for our survival. It is…
- We are, in the most profound sense, children of the Cosmos.
- I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time ... when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very…
- An extraterrestrial being, newly arrived on Earth - scrutinizing what we mainly present to our children in television, radio, movies, newspapers, magazines, the comics, and…
- The visions we offer our children shape the future.
- Your religion assumes that people are children and need a boogeyman so they'll behave. You want people to believe in God so they'll obey the…
- If we can't think for ourselves, if we're unwilling to question authority, then we're just putty in the hands of those in power. But if…
- Cutting off fundamental, curiosity-driven science is like eating the seed corn. We may have a little more to eat next winter but what will we…
- The visions we offer our children shape the future. It _matters_ what those visions are. Often they become self-fulfilling prophecies. Dreams are maps.
- The fact is that far more crime and child abuse has been committed by zealots in the name of God, Jesus and Mohammed than has…
- 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…
More Children Quotes
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads. — Paul Auster
- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
- Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so… — Richard Armour
- If you have children, you don't want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It's just not good. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- To suggest that God specifically created a worm to torture small African children is blasphemy as far as I can see. The… — David Attenborough
- Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized. — Margaret Atwood
- I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild child in… — Margaret Atwood
- The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children. — John James Audubon