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.
CARL SAGANStars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
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The very act of understanding is a celebration of joining, merging, even if on a very modest scale, with the magnificence of the Cosmos.
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There are as many atoms in one molecule of DNA as there are stars in a typical galaxy.
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If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go.
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We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
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What an astonishing thing a book is.
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We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
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Every kid starts out as a natural-born scientist, and then we beat it out of them. A few trickle through the system with their wonder and enthusiasm for science intact.
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The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.
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Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
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There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.
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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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Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
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The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
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