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 SAGANDon’t judge everyone else by your own limited experience.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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A galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars – billions upon billions of stars. Every star may be a sun to someone.
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Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
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Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
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We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers.
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One of the great commandments of science is: Mistrust arguments from authority.
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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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Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
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Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).
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What an astonishing thing a book is.
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When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion.
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We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
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The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what’s true.
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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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