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 SAGANWe are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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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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Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you’re in love, you want to tell the world.
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If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go.
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I’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
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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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Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
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Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
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Science is an attempt, largely successful, to understand the world, to get a grip on things, to get hold of ourselves, to steer a safe course.
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Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
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Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
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Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
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To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.
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Don’t judge everyone else by your own limited experience.
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Every kid starts out as a natural-born scientist, and then we beat it out of them. A few trickle through the system with their wonder and enthusiasm for science intact.
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Our ancestors lived out of doors. They were as familiar with the night sky as most of us are with our favorite television programs.
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