The very act of understanding is a celebration of joining, merging, even if on a very modest scale, with the magnificence of the Cosmos.
CARL SAGANA book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called “leaves”) imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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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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Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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The universe is a pretty big place. If it’s just us, seems like an awful waste of space.
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Every star may be a sun to someone.
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We are all stardust.
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When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion.
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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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The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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Perhaps the depth of love can be calibrated by the number of different selves that are actively involved in a given relationship.
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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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I’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
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The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
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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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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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