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 SAGANEvery 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.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Every star may be a sun to someone.
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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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We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.
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Your god is too small for my universe.
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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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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
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I don’t want to believe. I want to know.
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To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.
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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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All over the world there are enormous numbers of smart, even gifted, people who harbor a passion for science.
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Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.
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Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
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The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life.
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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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