Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
CARL SAGANThe only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
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The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
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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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We are all stardust.
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If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go.
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I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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The visions we offer our children shape the future.
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You have to know the past to understand the present.
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The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what’s true.
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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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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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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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