And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
CARL SAGANBooks are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
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The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.
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Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.
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The total number of stars in the Universe is larger than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth.
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Writing is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
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Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
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All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.
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The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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If I finish a book a week, I will read only a few thousand books in my lifetime, about a tenth of a percent of the contents of the greatest libraries of our time. The trick is to know which books to read.
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We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.
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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
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Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.
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Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).
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Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
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