The 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.
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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We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
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What an astonishing thing a book is.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
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Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
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You are worth about 3 dollars worth in chemicals.
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Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).
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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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Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you’re in love, you want to tell the world.
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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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The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.
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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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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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The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
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Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean. We are ready at last to set sail for the stars.
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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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