Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
CARL SAGANThe total number of stars in the Universe is larger than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
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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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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
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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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Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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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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Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it.
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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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Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.
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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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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
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Nature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
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