We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
CARL SAGANUnderstanding is a kind of ecstasy.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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What an astonishing thing a book is.
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).
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Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.
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There are as many atoms in one molecule of DNA as there are stars in a typical galaxy.
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One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.
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The visions we offer our children shape the future.
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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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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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One of the greatest gifts adults can give – to their offspring and to their society – is to read to children.
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Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
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If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
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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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Not all birds can fly. What separates the flyers from the walkers is the ability to take off.
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