And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
CARL SAGANWe are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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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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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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The visions we offer our children shape the future.
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We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good.
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Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you’re in love, you want to tell the world.
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Not all birds can fly. What separates the flyers from the walkers is the ability to take off.
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What an astonishing thing a book is.
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Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.
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Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
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We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
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We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
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We can’t help it. Life looks for life.
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We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
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The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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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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