If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.
CARL SAGANIf we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Every star may be a sun to someone.
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We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
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We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good.
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We are all stardust.
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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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There are as many atoms in one molecule of DNA as there are stars in a typical galaxy.
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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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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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The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life.
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You are worth about 3 dollars worth in chemicals.
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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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One of the greatest gifts adults can give – to their offspring and to their society – is to read to children.
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The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
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Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
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