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 SAGANYou are worth about 3 dollars worth in chemicals.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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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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Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
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I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves.
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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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Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
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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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We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
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The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.
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Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.
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The visions we offer our children shape the future.
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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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Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
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All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.
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Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean. We are ready at last to set sail for the stars.
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