Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.
CARL SAGANThe brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
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We are all stardust.
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The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
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An atheist is someone who is certain that God does not exist, someone who has compelling evidence against the existence of God.
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Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
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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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The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it.
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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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The universe is a pretty big place. If it’s just us, seems like an awful waste of space.
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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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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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We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
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The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
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Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.
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