What an astonishing thing a book is.
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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Your god is too small for my universe.
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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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Writing is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
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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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Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
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We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
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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 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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To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.
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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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We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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Science is an attempt, largely successful, to understand the world, to get a grip on things, to get hold of ourselves, to steer a safe course.
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We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
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