If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go.
CARL SAGANOne 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.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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What an astonishing thing a book is.
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Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
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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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Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.
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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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You are worth about 3 dollars worth in chemicals.
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If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
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I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
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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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We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
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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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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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Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.
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Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
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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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