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 SAGANThe 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.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.
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Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
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Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.
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The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.
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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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There are as many atoms in one molecule of DNA as there are stars in a typical galaxy.
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I don’t want to believe. I want to know.
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Your god is too small for my universe.
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What an astonishing thing a book is.
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Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
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All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.
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If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
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Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
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We all have a thirst for wonder. It’s a deeply human quality. Science and religion are both bound up with it.
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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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You have to know the past to understand the present.
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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
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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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Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
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Every star may be a sun to someone.
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Arguments from authority carry little weight, authorities have made mistakes in the past. They will do so again in the future. Perhaps a better way to say it is that in science there are no authorities; at most, there are experts.
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Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it.
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We can’t help it. Life looks for life.
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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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