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 are star stuff harvesting sunlight.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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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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And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
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Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.
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Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
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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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Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
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Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).
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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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The universe is a pretty big place. If it’s just us, seems like an awful waste of space.
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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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What an astonishing thing a book is.
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Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.
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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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