A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called “leaves”) imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles.
CARL SAGANAnd you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.
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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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The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.
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If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.
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Science is a way to not fool ourselves.
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Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.
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We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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One of the great commandments of science is: Mistrust arguments from authority.
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The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
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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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Writing is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
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To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.
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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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When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion.
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