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

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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If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
CARL SAGAN

Deserve Destroy Justice Science Truth
An atheist is someone who is certain that God does not exist, someone who has compelling evidence against the existence of God.
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Against Atheist Certain Evidence Existence God
The very act of understanding is a celebration of joining, merging, even if on a very modest scale, with the magnificence of the Cosmos.
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Act Celebration Cosmic Magnificant Merge Modest Scale Understand
We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
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Butterfly Forever Human Nature Thinking
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.
CARL SAGAN

Argument Authority Expert Future Mistake Past Weight
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.
CARL SAGAN

Book Dead Glance Hear Perhaps Reading Time Voice Voyage
Don’t judge everyone else by your own limited experience.
CARL SAGAN

Experience Judgement Life Limitation
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
The significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage.
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Courage Determination Fragile Live Planet Significance Wisdom
Our ancestors lived out of doors. They were as familiar with the night sky as most of us are with our favorite television programs.
CARL SAGAN

Ancestor Door Family Favourite Live Night Program Sky Television
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
You have to know the past to understand the present.
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Deep Inspirational One Liner Past Present Understand
Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
CARL SAGAN

Elegant Imagination Nature Stuble
I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves.
CARL SAGAN

Assume Come Consideration Danger Extreme Ourselves Outside Problem Solution
Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.
CARL SAGAN

Advance Agriculture History Live Lost Medicine Save Science Vast War
I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
CARL SAGAN

Information Science Suggestion Worship
We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
CARL SAGAN

Destiny Hands Science Stars Stuff
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
We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers.
CARL SAGAN

Courage Depth Significance World
Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
CARL SAGAN

Compatible Profound Science Soource Spiritual
Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).
CARL SAGAN

Certain Except False Mathematics Pure
What an astonishing thing a book is.
CARL SAGAN

Astonish Book One Liner
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
CARL SAGAN

Assure Delusion Grasp Persistence Satisfaction Universe
Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
CARL SAGAN

Ash Rise Science Stars
Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
CARL SAGAN

Comfortable Fantasy Inspirational Truth
The total number of stars in the Universe is larger than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth.
CARL SAGAN

Beach Earth Grain Number Planet Sand Science Stars Universe
The universe is a pretty big place. If it’s just us, seems like an awful waste of space.
CARL SAGAN

Awful Place Pretty Science Space Universe Waste

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