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.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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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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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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Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
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The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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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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Science is an attempt, largely successful, to understand the world, to get a grip on things, to get hold of ourselves, to steer a safe course.
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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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Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
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Nature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
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The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life.
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The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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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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You are worth about 3 dollars worth in chemicals.
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The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.
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