We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
- Carl Sagan
Carl Sagan came up with the idea of crafting two gold-plated disc designed to survive in space a billion years for the spacecrafts Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 in the hopes an alien civilization might find it and play the message.
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Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.
- Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
- Nothing is so dangerous to the progress of the human mind than to assume that our views of science are ultimate, that there are no mysteries in nature, that our triumphs are complete and that there are no new worlds to conquer.
- Racism is still with us. But it is up to us to prepare our children for what they have to meet, and, hopefully, we shall overcome.
- Every student who enters upon a scientific pursuit, especially if at a somewhat advanced period of life, will find not only that he has much to learn, but much also to unlearn.
- Your imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions.
- We’re made of star stuff. We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.