Nature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
CARL SAGANA book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called “leaves”) imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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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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Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
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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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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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We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
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Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
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All over the world there are enormous numbers of smart, even gifted, people who harbor a passion for science.
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Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.
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Science is a way to not fool ourselves.
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We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
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Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
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Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgement, the manner in which information is coordinated and used.
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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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What an astonishing thing a book is.
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Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
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