A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called “leaves”) imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles.
CARL SAGANIf 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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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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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
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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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A galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars – billions upon billions of stars. Every star may be a sun to someone.
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Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
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Don’t judge everyone else by your own limited experience.
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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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If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go.
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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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The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.
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One of the great commandments of science is: Mistrust arguments from authority.
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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.
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All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.
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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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Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
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