What an astonishing thing a book is.
CARL SAGANPerhaps the depth of love can be calibrated by the number of different selves that are actively involved in a given relationship.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
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One of the greatest gifts adults can give – to their offspring and to their society – is to read to children.
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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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We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
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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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Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).
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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
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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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For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
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I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves.
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Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
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The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go.
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I don’t want to believe. I want to know.
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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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