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 SAGANNot all birds can fly. What separates the flyers from the walkers is the ability to take off.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Science is an attempt, largely successful, to understand the world, to get a grip on things, to get hold of ourselves, to steer a safe course.
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Nature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
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Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
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We are all stardust.
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I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves.
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Your god is too small for my universe.
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Not all birds can fly. What separates the flyers from the walkers is the ability to take off.
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One of the greatest gifts adults can give – to their offspring and to their society – is to read to children.
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
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If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go.
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Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
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Every kid starts out as a natural-born scientist, and then we beat it out of them. A few trickle through the system with their wonder and enthusiasm for science intact.
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One of the great commandments of science is: Mistrust arguments from authority.
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We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.
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