Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
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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Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
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All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.
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Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.
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An atheist is someone who is certain that God does not exist, someone who has compelling evidence against the existence of God.
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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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Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
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I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture and our concern for the future can all be tested by how well we support our libraries.
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Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.
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Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
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Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
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We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers.
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What an astonishing thing a book is.
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The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
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Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.
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The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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