A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called “leaves”) imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles.
CARL SAGANYou are worth about 3 dollars worth in chemicals.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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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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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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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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The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
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The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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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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Science is a way to not fool ourselves.
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Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
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The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.
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Every star may be a sun to someone.
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Arguments from authority carry little weight, authorities have made mistakes in the past. They will do so again in the future. Perhaps a better way to say it is that in science there are no authorities; at most, there are experts.
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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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