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Carl Sagan Quote - Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.

Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.

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Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.
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Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).
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I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
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Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgement, the manner in which information is coordinated and used.
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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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The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
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Perhaps the depth of love can be calibrated by the number of different selves that are actively involved in a given relationship.
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We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good.
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You have to know the past to understand the present.
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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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If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
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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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Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
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Science is a way to not fool ourselves.
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Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
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I’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
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