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 SAGANBooks are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.
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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The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
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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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We are all stardust.
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The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
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If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go.
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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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The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.
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Your god is too small for my universe.
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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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We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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Not all birds can fly. What separates the flyers from the walkers is the ability to take off.
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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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