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Carl Sagan Quote - What an astonishing thing a book is.

What an astonishing thing a book is.

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We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
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Cosmic Deep Science
We are all stardust.
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One Liner Stardust
We live in a vast and awesome universe in which, daily, suns are made and worlds destroyed, where humanity clings to an obscure clod of rock.
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Awesome Cling Destroy Humanity Live Rock Sun Universe Vast World
Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.
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Avoid Cause Human Ignorance Misery Ourselves Particular Stupidity
Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.
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Book Century Flower Lie Promise Seed Soil
Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
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Awake Citizen Deserve Mind Species Understand Work World
For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
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Creature Love Vast
The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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Absence Evidence One Liner
The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what’s true.
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desperatel Determination Preference Prejudice Puzzle True Truth Want Work
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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Act Celebration Cosmic Magnificant Merge Modest Scale Understand
Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
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Ecstasy Kind One Liner Understand
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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Claim Evidence Extraordinary One Liner Requirement Science
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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Bound Human Quality Religion Science Thirist Wonder
Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
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Exception Exrinction Rule Survival
The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
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Argument Cure Ideas Suppression
I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
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Information Science Suggestion Worship

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