Writing is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
CARL SAGANAcross the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
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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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Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
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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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What an astonishing thing a book is.
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If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go.
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Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
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Writing is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
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I’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
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Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.
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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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The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.
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There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.
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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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I don’t want to believe. I want to know.
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