The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
CARL SAGANIf 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.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
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If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
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And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
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Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
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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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Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
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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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We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers.
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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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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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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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Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.
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Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
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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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All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.
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