The significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage.
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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Your god is too small for my universe.
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it.
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The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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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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You have to know the past to understand the present.
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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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We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
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What an astonishing thing a book is.
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Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
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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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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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The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
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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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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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