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 SAGANEvery 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.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
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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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Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
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Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
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The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.
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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 universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.
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What an astonishing thing a book is.
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The significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage.
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The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life.
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You are worth about 3 dollars worth in chemicals.
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You have to know the past to understand the present.
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For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
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