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 SAGANWe 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.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
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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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We are all stardust.
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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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Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).
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The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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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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For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
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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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The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.
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I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves.
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Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
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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 Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life.
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