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 SAGANFor small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
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Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
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Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
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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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Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgement, the manner in which information is coordinated and used.
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Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
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One of the great commandments of science is: Mistrust arguments from authority.
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We can’t help it. Life looks for life.
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Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
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We are all stardust.
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Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
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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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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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The significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage.
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If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
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