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.
CARL SAGANBooks break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
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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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Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
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We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.
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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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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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Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
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Every star may be a sun to someone.
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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 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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We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers.
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The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it.
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The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
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An atheist is someone who is certain that God does not exist, someone who has compelling evidence against the existence of God.
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