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.
CARL SAGANWhat an astonishing thing a book is.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
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Every kid starts out as a natural-born scientist, and then we beat it out of them. A few trickle through the system with their wonder and enthusiasm for science intact.
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The total number of stars in the Universe is larger than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth.
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Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
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Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
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We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good.
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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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Every star may be a sun to someone.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
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The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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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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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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There are as many atoms in one molecule of DNA as there are stars in a typical galaxy.
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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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And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
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