Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
CARL SAGANBooks break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Nature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
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The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
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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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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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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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One of the greatest gifts adults can give – to their offspring and to their society – is to read to children.
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What an astonishing thing a book is.
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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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The total number of stars in the Universe is larger than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth.
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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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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
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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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Every star may be a sun to someone.
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Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
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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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