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.
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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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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The very act of understanding is a celebration of joining, merging, even if on a very modest scale, with the magnificence of the Cosmos.
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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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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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The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
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Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
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To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.
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Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.
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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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We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
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A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called “leaves”) imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles.
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The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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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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