Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
CARL SAGANWe can’t help it. Life looks for life.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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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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When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion.
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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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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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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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Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.
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Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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You have to know the past to understand the present.
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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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Writing is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
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We can’t help it. Life looks for life.
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Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
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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 would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
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