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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.


Carl Sagan

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DANIEL HOPE I want Carl Sagan to explain the sky to me.
WHOOPI GOLDBERG It is an hypothesis that the sun will rise tomorrow: and this means that we do not know whether it w...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Rather than have it the principal thing in my son's mind, I would gladly have him think that the...
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NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.
VICTOR HUGO Though my soul may set in darkness, It will rise in perfect light, I have loved the stars too fondly...
SARAH WILLIAMS When a Carl Sagan appears someone who really has that astonishing combination of poetry, of knowledg...
ANN DRUYAN Stars are important," I say, laughing.

"Sure, but why not more poems about the sun? The s...
NICOLA YOON The stars emerge as asset classes do well. A star isn't a star just because he's a genius. It's the ...
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ANN DRUYAN Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light;
I have loved the stars too ...
SARAH WILLIAMS I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES The sun is not jealous of the stars, and is therefore able to benefit from them at night.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO By my reckoning, I'm about 100 kilometers from Pathfinder. Technically it's called "Carl Sagan Memor...
ANDY WEIR I cannot possibly conceive of my planet Earth as the centre of a three-tiered universe. I know rathe...
JOHN SHELBY SPONG I can see the sun, but even if I cannot see the sun, I know that it exists. And to know that the sun...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY In the way that scepticism is sometimes applied to issues of public concern, there is a tendency to ...
CARL SAGAN Millions of people acknowledge today that they do not know the meaning of life.
JAMES C. DOBSON I think I set myself on a course to become a scientist around about the time that Carl Sagan's &...
ALASTAIR REYNOLDS We laugh at a man who, stepping out of his room at the very minute when the sun is rising, says, “...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE If you look up at the Milky Way through the eyes of Carl Sagan, you get a feeling in your chest of s...
RICHARD DAWKINS Carl Sagan's 'Pale Blue Dot' is where I got the title 'Momentary Masters.'
ALBERT HAMMOND, JR. If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe...
CARL SAGAN All that I know of tomorrow is that Providence will rise before the sun.
JEAN BAPTISTE LACORDAIRE The Sun can rise anytime in your dreams. And there night may fall anytime as well.
MUNIA KHAN As much as the university embraces adult re-entry students, it would be nice if more of the undergra...
JACK FERGUSON The very best thing you can be in life is a teacher, provided you are crazy in love with what you te...
KURT VONNEGUT These classes demonstrate to college admissions and scholarship staff that students who successfully...
DON BOHANAN The sun shine comes, you see the shine you see the color, when night comes you the stars you see the...
DEMI LOVATO If you love a flower that lives on a star, it is sweet to look at the sky at night. All the stars ar...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY Am I glowing?"
"Like a Christmas tree."
"Not just the star?"
The bed moved a little, ...
JENNIFER L. ARMENTROUT There are naive questions, tedious questions, ill-phrased questions, questions put after inadequate ...
CARL SAGAN The fact is that far more crime and child abuse has been committed by zealots in the name of God, Je...
CARL SAGAN The bright sun was extinguish'd, and the stars
Did wander darkling in the eternal space.
GEORGE GORDON BYRON Sirius is the Hidden God or "the sun behind the sun". As the moon reflects the sun, so does the sun ...
PRESTON NICHOLS AND PETER MOON Water will run by rule; the actual sun / Will scrupulously rise and set; / No little man lives in th...
SYLVIA PLATH When night comes do not despair; rejoice instead and say to yourself, “At least now I can see the ...
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Students need to know about classes in this field; there needs to be a place to go and find out abou...
HEATHER LOVE Oh God, let me have the courage to rise by the sun and let me have the faith to set by the night..
OLASOT Star light, Star bright
I wish upon the stars tonight…

I whispered your name to a ...
N'ZURI ZA AUSTIN In my heart lives a promise to rise to find the brightest star when darkness falls
KIRAN RADHAKRISHNAN Students who do not use their textbooks, attend classes or complete assignments are only denying the...
JACK MURPHY All the stars in a cluster are the same distance away, so you can compare brightness without having ...
CARLTON PRYOR Gone--flitted away, Taken the stars from the night and the sun From the day! Gone, and a...
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON Our students take their meals there, and it is part of their undergraduate experience. Even though t...
CASS CLIATT All I can see is you. Why can't you understand that? No one shines as bright as you in the sky I'm l...
JAY CROWNOVER One of the great things about this program, even at the beginning, is that you can see the light at ...
JEFF WILLOUGHBY Even after the dehadhyas (the belief that 'I am the body') has gone, people will say, "I saw you eat...
DADA BHAGWAN We were sitting there watching the coffin being nailed shut, and what was inside was imagination and...
BRUCE MURRAY Sometimes in my tent, late at night, I think I can hear the stars scraping against the sky.
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MADELIN M. Come unto me. Come unto me, you say. All right then, dear my Lord. I will try in my own absurd way. ...
FREDERICK BUECHNER Although classes are not back in session this year at the time of the concert, we do have students w...
JENNIFER WOLF The things that were once sweet to me are now bitter. The sun is not half so bright. The stars seem ...
JESSICA KHOURY Usually, if I'm yelling at the TV, I'm in a bar. If I'm by myself, and it's not a ga...
BEN FELDMAN Do not look at stars as bright spots only. Try to take in the vastness of the universe.
MARIA MITCHELL Wherever my story takes me, however dark and difficult the theme, there is always some hope and rede...
MICHAEL MORPURGO The two men had a conversation. Brief, cryptic, to the point. As though they had exchanged numbers a...
ARUNDHATI ROY When we start looking at classes to add to our program, we examine trends in activities and what stu...
KRISTEN KAVON Online classes in the technology areas can often zero right in on a specific skill set or subset tha...
CINDY YAGER The sun will always rise, it is us who may not always rise with it.
MELVIN BIZA But who will watch my lilies, When their blossoms open white? By day the sun shall be sentry, ...
BAYARD TAYLOR The interesting aspect of this publication is that it was produced and written by undergraduate stud...
ANDREA GIBSON The key to proving that there's a black hole is showing that there's a tremendous amount of ...
ANDREA M. GHEZ A good heart is the sun and the moon; or, rather, the sun and not the moon, for it shines bright and...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I am not a rock star or a movie star; I'm a businessperson. I definitely know who my friends are...
MARTHA STEWART Being present is being connected to All Things.
S. KELLEY HARRELL, M. DIV. There is no question electronic communication is overtaking print. Students can find out about a col...
CHARLES NOLAN At the crossroad in my life, I didn't know which way to go. I just mindlessly choose a random direct...
NOBUYUKI FUKUMOTO we would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open a...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Having been an educator for so many years I know that all a good teacher can do is set a context, ra...
GODFREY REGGIO When I look up at the stars I see a bright light you see like the stars they cannot come out without...
ANIKA SHARMA Here is one fact 1 minute to finish the class, 1 day to die, one day behind that fact, one day in th...
DEYTH BANGER I was never a bright student, potentially never good at dramatics; I was sometimes given one-line ro...
RANBIR KAPOOR Do not worry about whether or not the sun will rise. Be prepared to enjoy it.
SOURCE UNKNOWN We believe that the matter in neutron stars is denser than an atomic nucleus, but it is unclear by h...
JASON HESSELS Tis the witching hour of night,
Or bed is the moon and bright,
And the stars they glisten, g...
JOHN KEATS Stars are rare creatures, and not everyone can be one. But there isn't anyone on earth - not you...
SUE MENGERS Arguments from authority carry little weight – authorities have made mistakes in the past. They wi...
CARL SAGAN I worry that, especially as the Millennium edges nearer, pseudoscience and superstition will seem ye...
CARL SAGAN I promise to question everything my leaders tell me. I promise to use my critical faculties. I promi...
CARL SAGAN Planetary exploration satisfies our inclination for great enterprises and wanderings and quests that...
CARL SAGAN I know not if the dark or bright Shall be by lot; If that wherein my hopes delight Be be...
HENRY ALFORD I know not if the dark or bright shall be by lot; if that wherein my hopes delight be best or not.
HENRY ALFORD When a star goes supernova, the explosion emits enough light to overshadow an entire solar system, e...
TODD NELSEN That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contr...
DAVID HUME The sun was still out, wouldn’t even start to set for an hour, but the early evening still had tha...
VICTORIA KAHLER Every night, no matter what has happened during the day, no matter if I am torn and bloodied or so b...
CASSANDRA CLARE Nothing was guaranteed; the roster was set, and even if I chose to stay, there's no guarantee of me ...
AL LEITER The students who I know who've taken his classes always say that he's really engaging and very provo...
JAMES CIANCIOLA Journey’s end

In western lands beneath the Sun
The flowers may rise in Spring,
J.R.R. TOLKIEN At about 10 o'clock in the morning the sun threw a bright dust-laden bar through one of the side win...
JOHN STEINBECK Be so warm that people mistake you for the sun; so bright that people mistake you for the stars; and...
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Maude - "The earth is my body, my head is in the stars...Who said that?" Harold- "I don't know." Mau...
, FROM THE MOVIE "HAROLD & MAUDE"

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CARL SAGAN An atheist is someone who is certain that God doesn't exist, someone who has compelling evidence aga...
CARL SAGAN Many religions have attempted to make statues of their gods very large, and the idea, I suppose, is ...
CARL SAGAN Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
CARL SAGAN It seems to me what is called for is an exquisite balance between two conflicting needs: the most sk...
CARL SAGAN Once we lose our fear of being tiny, we find ourselves on the threshold of a vast and awesome Univer...
CARL SAGAN To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.
CARL SAGAN As science advances, there seems to be less and less for God to do. It's a big universe, of course, ...
CARL SAGAN We have examined the universe in space and seen that we live on a mote of dust circling a humdrum st...
CARL SAGAN It is said that men may not be the dreams of the god, but rather that the gods are the dreams of men...
CARL SAGAN If we long for our planet to be important, there is something we can do about it. We make our world ...
CARL SAGAN Every aspect of Nature reveals a deep mystery and touches our sense of wonder and awe. Those afraid ...
CARL SAGAN Observation: I can't see a thing. Conclusion: Dinosaurs.
CARL SAGAN We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
CARL SAGAN Atoms are mainly empty space. Matter is composed chiefly of nothing.
CARL SAGAN We inhabit a universe where atoms are made in the centers of stars; where each second a thousand sun...
CARL SAGAN You are worth about 3 dollars worth in chemicals.
CARL SAGAN Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soi...
CARL SAGAN The surface of the Earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean. On this shore, we've learned most of what...
CARL SAGAN One glance at (a book) and you hear the voice of another person - perhaps someone dead for thousands...
CARL SAGAN Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
CARL SAGAN The size and age of the Cosmos are beyond ordinary human understanding. Lost somewhere between immen...
CARL SAGAN If I finish a book a week, I will read only a few thousand books in my lifetime, about a tenth of a ...
CARL SAGAN Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered lo...
CARL SAGAN The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence.
CARL SAGAN we make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers
CARL SAGAN We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
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