Your god is too small for my universe.
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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Don’t judge everyone else by your own limited experience.
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I don’t want to believe. I want to know.
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A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called “leaves”) imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles.
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I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture and our concern for the future can all be tested by how well we support our libraries.
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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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The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.
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And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
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If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
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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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We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers.
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Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
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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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What an astonishing thing a book is.
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I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
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Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
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