Writing is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
CARL SAGANThe nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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What an astonishing thing a book is.
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You have to know the past to understand the present.
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The universe is a pretty big place. If it’s just us, seems like an awful waste of space.
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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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Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
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One of the great commandments of science is: Mistrust arguments from authority.
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I’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
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Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.
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If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.
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Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
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You are worth about 3 dollars worth in chemicals.
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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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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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Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
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