Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.
CARL SAGANThe absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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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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Science is a way to not fool ourselves.
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For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
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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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One of the great commandments of science is: Mistrust arguments from authority.
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Your god is too small for my universe.
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We can’t help it. Life looks for life.
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We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good.
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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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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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The total number of stars in the Universe is larger than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth.
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When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion.
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We all have a thirst for wonder. It’s a deeply human quality. Science and religion are both bound up with it.
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To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.
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The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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