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Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.

Carl Sagan

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 SAGAN

Book Content Finish Library Lifetime Percent Reading Time Trick Week
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 SAGAN

Book Content Finish Library Lifetime Percent Reading Time Trick Week
We can’t help it. Life looks for life.
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Help Life Look Science
A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called “leaves”) imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles.
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Assemble Book Leaf Print Tree
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
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Astronomy Incredible Inspirational Science
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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Assure Delusion Grasp Persistence Satisfaction Universe
Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
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Equality Inspirational Smart Stupidity
The 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.
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Apple Blood Calcium DNA Interior Nitrogen Stars Teeth
Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
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Book Permit Time Voyage Wisdom
Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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Ash Rise Science Stars
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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desperatel Determination Preference Prejudice Puzzle True Truth Want Work
Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.
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Disturb Glory Stupidity
Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
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Elegant Imagination Nature Stuble
The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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Hostile Indifference Universe
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.
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Book Dead Glance Hear Perhaps Reading Time Voice Voyage
I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
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Information Science Suggestion Worship

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