A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called “leaves”) imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles.
CARL SAGANThe Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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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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You are worth about 3 dollars worth in chemicals.
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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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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
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We all have a thirst for wonder. It’s a deeply human quality. Science and religion are both bound up with it.
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Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.
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Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean. We are ready at last to set sail for the stars.
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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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There are as many atoms in one molecule of DNA as there are stars in a typical galaxy.
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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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People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.
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We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers.
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The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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