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.
CARL SAGANAny faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.
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The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
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I’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
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Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.
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For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
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An atheist is someone who is certain that God does not exist, someone who has compelling evidence against the existence of God.
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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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Writing is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
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Every star may be a sun to someone.
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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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The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
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You have to know the past to understand the present.
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Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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Nature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
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We can’t help it. Life looks for life.
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