Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.
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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Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you’re in love, you want to tell the world.
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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A galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars – billions upon billions of stars. Every star may be a sun to someone.
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What an astonishing thing a book is.
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To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.
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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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Our ancestors lived out of doors. They were as familiar with the night sky as most of us are with our favorite television programs.
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Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
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Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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Every star may be a sun to someone.
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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.
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Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgement, the manner in which information is coordinated and used.
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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 Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life.
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The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it.
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