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Carl Sagan Quote - 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.

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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Science is a way to not fool ourselves.
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Fools One Liner Ourselves Science
A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called “leaves”) imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles.
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Assemble Book Leaf Print Tree
If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
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Deserve Destroy Justice Science Truth
Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
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Exception Exrinction Rule Survival
All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.
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Civilization Extinct Science Space
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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Assure Delusion Grasp Persistence Satisfaction Universe
Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
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Compatible Profound Science Soource Spiritual
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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Compose Dust Galaxy Gas Stars Sun
We all have a thirst for wonder. It’s a deeply human quality. Science and religion are both bound up with it.
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Bound Human Quality Religion Science Thirist Wonder
We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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Dust Live Sun Suspend
For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
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Creature Love Vast
There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.
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Delicate Forbidden Matter Scare Science Sensitive Truth
Perhaps the depth of love can be calibrated by the number of different selves that are actively involved in a given relationship.
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Depth Different Giving Involvement Love Number Perhaps Relationship
There are as many atoms in one molecule of DNA as there are stars in a typical galaxy.
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Atom DNA Galaxy Molecule Science Stars Typical
Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).
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Certain Except False Mathematics Pure
The significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage.
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Courage Determination Fragile Live Planet Significance Wisdom
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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Cosmic Disagree Finding Galaxy Human Love Mercy Perspective Precious
Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.
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Book Century Flower Lie Promise Seed Soil
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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Book Content Finish Library Lifetime Percent Reading Time Trick Week
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.
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Book Dead Glance Hear Perhaps Reading Time Voice Voyage
You have to know the past to understand the present.
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Deep Inspirational One Liner Past Present Understand
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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Atom Beauty Cosmic Couple Live Marriage Togetherness
The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
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Brain Feeling Goodness Joy Muscle Understand
Writing is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
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Blind Citizen Distant Greatness Human Invention People Togetherness Writing
The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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Absence Evidence One Liner
We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers.
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Courage Depth Significance World
Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
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Deception Demonstrate Emotion Human

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