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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I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture and our concern for the future can all be tested by how well we support our libraries.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
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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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The universe is a pretty big place. If it’s just us, seems like an awful waste of space.
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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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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
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Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
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The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).
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People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.
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Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
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The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life.
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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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Science is a way to not fool ourselves.
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Don’t judge everyone else by your own limited experience.
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