All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.
CARL SAGANNature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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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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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
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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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The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.
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What an astonishing thing a book is.
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Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
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Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
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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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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
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All over the world there are enormous numbers of smart, even gifted, people who harbor a passion for science.
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Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
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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 a way to not fool ourselves.
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When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion.
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We can’t help it. Life looks for life.
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