Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
CARL SAGANAll civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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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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Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
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We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
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The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers.
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We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
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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 universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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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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All over the world there are enormous numbers of smart, even gifted, people who harbor a passion for science.
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Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.
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We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.
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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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Nature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
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