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.
CARL SAGANWhen we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
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One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.
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Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
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If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go.
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Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
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Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.
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Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
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Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
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There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.
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The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what’s true.
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Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean. We are ready at last to set sail for the stars.
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Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.
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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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There are as many atoms in one molecule of DNA as there are stars in a typical galaxy.
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I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
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