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.
CARL SAGANWe are star stuff harvesting sunlight.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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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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Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
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We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
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The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.
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Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
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We can’t help it. Life looks for life.
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Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.
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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 Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life.
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We are all stardust.
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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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