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Kind Quotes by Carl Sagan
- 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…
- We are an intelligent species and the use of our intelligence quite properly gives us pleasure. In this respect the brain is like a muscle.…
- Imagine a room awash in gasoline, and there are two implacable enemies in that room. One of them has nine thousand matches. The other has…
- 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
- [S]cience has itself become a kind of religion.
- The gears of poverty, ignorance, hopelessness and low self-esteem interact to create a kind of perpetual failure machine that grinds down dreams from generation to…
- When you look more generally at life on Earth, you find that it is all the same kind of life. There are not many different…
- There is today-in a time when old beliefs are withering-a kind of philosophical hunger, a need to know who we are and how we got…
- The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites…
- Is mankind alone in the universe? Or are there somewhere other intelligent beings looking up into their night sky from very different worlds and asking…
- There are in fact 100 billion galaxies, each of which contain something like a 100 billion stars. Think of how many stars, and planets, and…
- The dumbing down of America is evident in the slow decay of substantive content, a kind of celebration of ignorance.
- Frederick Douglas taught that literacy is the path from slavery to freedom. There are many kinds of slavery and many kinds of freedom, but reading…
- Present global culture is a kind of arrogant newcomer. It arrives on the planetary stage following four and a half billion years of other acts,…
- What a marvelous cooperative arrangement - plants and animals each inhaling each other's exhalations, a kind of planet-wide mutual mouth-to-stoma resuscitation, the entire elegant cycle…
- The hole in the ozone layer is a kind of skywriting. At first it seemed to spell out our continuing complacency before a witch's brew…
- Coal, oil and gas are called fossil fuels, because they are mostly made of the fossil remains of beings from long ago. The chemical energy…
- Understanding is a kind of ecstasy
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- When I was 16, I started publishing all kinds of things in school magazines. — Margaret Atwood
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