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A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called “leaves”) imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles.

Carl Sagan

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.
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Book Dead Glance Hear Perhaps Reading Time Voice Voyage
Writing is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
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Blind Citizen Distant Greatness Human Invention People Togetherness Writing
We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
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Cosmic Deep Science
Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
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Awake Citizen Deserve Mind Species Understand Work World
Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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Ash Rise Science Stars
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
A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called “leaves”) imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles.
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Assemble Book Leaf Print Tree
Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
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Deception Demonstrate Emotion Human
When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion.
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Distant Fusion Look Night Nuclear Science Shine Stars
All over the world there are enormous numbers of smart, even gifted, people who harbor a passion for science.
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Enormous Gift Habour Number Passion People Science Smart World
The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.
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Apple Blood Calcium DNA Interior Nitrogen Stars Teeth
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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Dependent Exquisite Live Science Society Technology
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
We 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.
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Awesome Cling Destroy Humanity Live Rock Sun Universe Vast World
Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
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Elegant Imagination Nature Stuble

A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called “leaves”) imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles.

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