Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
CARL SAGANThe universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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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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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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What an astonishing thing a book is.
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A galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars – billions upon billions of stars. Every star may be a sun to someone.
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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
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The very act of understanding is a celebration of joining, merging, even if on a very modest scale, with the magnificence of the Cosmos.
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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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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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Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.
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People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.
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Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
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