Writing is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
CARL SAGANWe are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.
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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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I don’t want to believe. I want to know.
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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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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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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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What an astonishing thing a book is.
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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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Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.
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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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Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.
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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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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
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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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