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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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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.
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The very act of understanding is a celebration of joining, merging, even if on a very modest scale, with the magnificence of the Cosmos.
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Science is a way to not fool ourselves.
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Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.
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There are as many atoms in one molecule of DNA as there are stars in a typical galaxy.
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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 truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what’s true.
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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
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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.
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We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
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Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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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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One of the great commandments of science is: Mistrust arguments from authority.
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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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We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
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