Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.
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.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
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Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean. We are ready at last to set sail for the stars.
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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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Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
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We can’t help it. Life looks for life.
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If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
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I’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
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I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
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Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good.
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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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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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Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
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I don’t want to believe. I want to know.
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