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.
CARL SAGANWhat an astonishing thing a book is.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Your god is too small for my universe.
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We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
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Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool 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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Not all birds can fly. What separates the flyers from the walkers is the ability to take off.
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People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.
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Every star may be a sun to someone.
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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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Science is a way to not fool ourselves.
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If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.
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All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.
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Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
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The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
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The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life.
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