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 SAGANI don’t want to believe. I want to know.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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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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Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
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Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
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A galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars – billions upon billions of stars. Every star may be a sun to someone.
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We all have a thirst for wonder. It’s a deeply human quality. Science and religion are both bound up with it.
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Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
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I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
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Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
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If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go.
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Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
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The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.
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And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
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The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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Don’t judge everyone else by your own limited experience.
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We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
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