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.
CARL SAGANBooks permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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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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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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People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.
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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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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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Your god is too small for my universe.
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The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
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We are all stardust.
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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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Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you’re in love, you want to tell the world.
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We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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The visions we offer our children shape the future.
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I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture and our concern for the future can all be tested by how well we support our libraries.
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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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