What an astonishing thing a book is.
CARL SAGANI 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.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.
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All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.
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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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Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
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The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.
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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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Every 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.
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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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I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves.
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For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
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Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
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You are worth about 3 dollars worth in chemicals.
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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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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean. We are ready at last to set sail for the stars.
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