Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
CARL SAGANNature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.
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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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The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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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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Perhaps the depth of love can be calibrated by the number of different selves that are actively involved in a given relationship.
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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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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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The universe is a pretty big place. If it’s just us, seems like an awful waste of space.
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Every star may be a sun to someone.
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Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
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Don’t judge everyone else by your own limited experience.
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Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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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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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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