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Carl Sagan Quote - Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.

Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.

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One of the great commandments of science is: Mistrust arguments from authority.
CARL SAGAN

Argument Authority Command Greatness Science Trust
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 SAGAN

Book Content Finish Library Lifetime Percent Reading Time Trick Week
Writing is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
CARL SAGAN

Blind Citizen Distant Greatness Human Invention People Togetherness Writing
We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers.
CARL SAGAN

Courage Depth Significance World
Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
CARL SAGAN

Ash Rise Science Stars
Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.
CARL SAGAN

Book Century Flower Lie Promise Seed Soil
I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves.
CARL SAGAN

Assume Come Consideration Danger Extreme Ourselves Outside Problem Solution
We live in a vast and awesome universe in which, daily, suns are made and worlds destroyed, where humanity clings to an obscure clod of rock.
CARL SAGAN

Awesome Cling Destroy Humanity Live Rock Sun Universe Vast World
Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
CARL SAGAN

Inspirational Life Magnificent Opportunity Positive Provide Thankful
A galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars – billions upon billions of stars. Every star may be a sun to someone.
CARL SAGAN

Compose Dust Galaxy Gas Stars Sun
The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it.
CARL SAGAN

Anticipation Anxiety Future Pay Price
A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called “leaves”) imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles.
CARL SAGAN

Assemble Book Leaf Print Tree
Writing is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
CARL SAGAN

Blind Citizen Distant Greatness Human Invention People Togetherness Writing
Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
CARL SAGAN

Ash Rise Science Stars
We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
CARL SAGAN

Cosmic Deep Science
I don’t want to believe. I want to know.
CARL SAGAN

Atheist Believe Knowledge Proof Science Want

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