For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
CARL SAGANWhat an astonishing thing a book is.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
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Perhaps the depth of love can be calibrated by the number of different selves that are actively involved in a given relationship.
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Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
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We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.
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Every star may be a sun to someone.
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We can’t help it. Life looks for life.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
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If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.
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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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Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
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We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
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The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.
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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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If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go.
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