Writing is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
CARL SAGANBooks permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Your god is too small for my universe.
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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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The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).
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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 it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
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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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Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.
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We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
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Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.
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Science is an attempt, largely successful, to understand the world, to get a grip on things, to get hold of ourselves, to steer a safe course.
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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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Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
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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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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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