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 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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Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
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The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it.
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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 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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Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
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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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We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
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We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
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We all have a thirst for wonder. It’s a deeply human quality. Science and religion are both bound up with it.
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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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If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.
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The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life.
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Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgement, the manner in which information is coordinated and used.
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I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
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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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