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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I don’t want to believe. I want to know.
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Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
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If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
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The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life.
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Nature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
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Arguments from authority carry little weight, authorities have made mistakes in the past. They will do so again in the future. Perhaps a better way to say it is that in science there are no authorities; at most, there are experts.
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Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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Our ancestors lived out of doors. They were as familiar with the night sky as most of us are with our favorite television programs.
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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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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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Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
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Every star may be a sun to someone.
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All over the world there are enormous numbers of smart, even gifted, people who harbor a passion for science.
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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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