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Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.

Carl Sagan

Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
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Book Break Human Magic Proof Time Work
I’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
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Atheist Conviction Courage
And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
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Biology Cell Science
The visions we offer our children shape the future.
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Children Future Inspirational Ofer Shape Vision
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.
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Book Content Finish Library Lifetime Percent Reading Time Trick Week
To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.
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Break Up Couple Deep Forever Heart Leaving Live Love
Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.
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Book Century Flower Lie Promise Seed Soil
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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Argument Authority Expert Future Mistake Past Weight
If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.
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Accumulate Destroy Ourselves Power Sure Wisdom
We all have a thirst for wonder. It’s a deeply human quality. Science and religion are both bound up with it.
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Bound Human Quality Religion Science Thirist Wonder
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 SAGAN

Book Content Finish Library Lifetime Percent Reading Time Trick Week
Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.
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Disturb Glory Stupidity
There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.
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Delicate Forbidden Matter Scare Science Sensitive Truth
We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good.
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Atheist Courage Depth Embrace Goodness Judgement Progress Science Willing
Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you’re in love, you want to tell the world.
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Explanation Love Peverse Science Want World
Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
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Across Sea Space Stars Sun

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