Every star may be a sun to someone.
CARL SAGANBetter the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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I don’t want to believe. I want to know.
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There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.
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There are as many atoms in one molecule of DNA as there are stars in a typical galaxy.
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And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
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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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You have to know the past to understand the present.
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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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Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
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The significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage.
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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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Nature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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What an astonishing thing a book is.
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For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
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Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
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