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 SAGANWe are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Not all birds can fly. What separates the flyers from the walkers is the ability to take off.
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
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And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
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People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.
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The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.
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The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
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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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We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers.
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The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life.
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Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
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Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you’re in love, you want to tell the world.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
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All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.
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