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 SAGANIf we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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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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Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you’re in love, you want to tell the world.
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Perhaps the depth of love can be calibrated by the number of different selves that are actively involved in a given relationship.
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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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Writing is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.
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The visions we offer our children shape the future.
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If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go.
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Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.
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A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called “leaves”) imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles.
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And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
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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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The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
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