Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
CARL SAGANExtinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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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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Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
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Don’t judge everyone else by your own limited experience.
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The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.
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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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Your god is too small for my universe.
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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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Every star may be a sun to someone.
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What an astonishing thing a book is.
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Our ancestors lived out of doors. They were as familiar with the night sky as most of us are with our favorite television programs.
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The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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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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Writing is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
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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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