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 SAGANWe can’t help it. Life looks for life.
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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Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.
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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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What an astonishing thing a book is.
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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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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I don’t want to believe. I want to know.
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The very act of understanding is a celebration of joining, merging, even if on a very modest scale, with the magnificence of the Cosmos.
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To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.
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The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it.
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I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
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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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We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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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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Nature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
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