Writing is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
CARL SAGANStars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
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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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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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Your god is too small for my universe.
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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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People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.
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I’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
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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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Don’t judge everyone else by your own limited experience.
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We are all stardust.
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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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Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.
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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 a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
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