Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
CARL SAGANAn atheist is someone who is certain that God does not exist, someone who has compelling evidence against the existence of God.
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The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.
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Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
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People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.
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If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.
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An atheist is someone who is certain that God does not exist, someone who has compelling evidence against the existence of God.
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Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.
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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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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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Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.
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Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
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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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To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.
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And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
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Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
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If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
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