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.
CARL SAGANI consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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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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Don’t judge everyone else by your own limited experience.
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Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
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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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The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life.
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We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.
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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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When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion.
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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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Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
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If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
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Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
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We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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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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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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