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 SAGANExcept in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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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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Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean. We are ready at last to set sail for the stars.
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The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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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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Writing is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
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Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
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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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Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
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I’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
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Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
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Science is a way to not fool ourselves.
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If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
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