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Carl Sagan Quote - Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.

Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.

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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.
CARL SAGAN

Book Content Finish Library Lifetime Percent Reading Time Trick Week
Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.
CARL SAGAN

Avoid Cause Human Ignorance Misery Ourselves Particular Stupidity
Your god is too small for my universe.
CARL SAGAN

Atheist God Universe
An atheist is someone who is certain that God does not exist, someone who has compelling evidence against the existence of God.
CARL SAGAN

Against Atheist Certain Evidence Existence God
Perhaps the depth of love can be calibrated by the number of different selves that are actively involved in a given relationship.
CARL SAGAN

Depth Different Giving Involvement Love Number Perhaps Relationship
We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.
CARL SAGAN

Harvest Stars Stuff Sunlight
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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Act Celebration Cosmic Magnificant Merge Modest Scale Understand
A galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars – billions upon billions of stars. Every star may be a sun to someone.
CARL SAGAN

Compose Dust Galaxy Gas Stars Sun
The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
CARL SAGAN

Absence Evidence One Liner
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.
CARL SAGAN

Apple Blood Calcium DNA Interior Nitrogen Stars Teeth
The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
CARL SAGAN

Brain Feeling Goodness Joy Muscle Understand
I don’t want to believe. I want to know.
CARL SAGAN

Atheist Believe Knowledge Proof Science Want
I 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.
CARL SAGAN

Assume Come Consideration Danger Extreme Ourselves Outside Problem Solution
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.
CARL SAGAN

Cosmic Enough Explore Investigation Nature Ocean Ready Sail Shore Stars Wander
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
CARL SAGAN

Assure Delusion Grasp Persistence Satisfaction Universe
Writing is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
CARL SAGAN

Blind Citizen Distant Greatness Human Invention People Togetherness Writing

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