Writing is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
CARL SAGANNot explaining science seems to me perverse. When you’re in love, you want to tell the world.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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One of the greatest gifts adults can give – to their offspring and to their society – is to read to children.
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We live in a vast and awesome universe in which, daily, suns are made and worlds destroyed, where humanity clings to an obscure clod of rock.
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Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
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The total number of stars in the Universe is larger than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth.
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And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
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For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
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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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All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.
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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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Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.
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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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We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.
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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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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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What an astonishing thing a book is.
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