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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All over the world there are enormous numbers of smart, even gifted, people who harbor a passion for science.
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Our ancestors lived out of doors. They were as familiar with the night sky as most of us are with our favorite television programs.
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Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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What an astonishing thing a book is.
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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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I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture and our concern for the future can all be tested by how well we support our libraries.
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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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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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The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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Every star may be a sun to someone.
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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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Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
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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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