Perhaps the depth of love can be calibrated by the number of different selves that are actively involved in a given relationship.
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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We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
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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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For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
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If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.
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The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.
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There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.
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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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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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The visions we offer our children shape the future.
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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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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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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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Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.
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We can’t help it. Life looks for life.
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