Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.
CARL SAGANBooks permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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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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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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For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
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Don’t judge everyone else by your own limited experience.
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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 are star stuff harvesting sunlight.
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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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We can’t help it. Life looks for life.
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You have to know the past to understand the present.
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The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
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Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
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All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.
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A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called “leaves”) imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles.
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Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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The visions we offer our children shape the future.
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I’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
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For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
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A galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars – billions upon billions of stars. Every star may be a sun to someone.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
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Every star may be a sun to someone.
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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 are all stardust.
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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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I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
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