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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If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.
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People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.
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Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
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Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
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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 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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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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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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Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.
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Science is a way to not fool ourselves.
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Nature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
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One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.
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Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.
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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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The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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