I don’t want to believe. I want to know.
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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The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life.
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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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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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Every kid starts out as a natural-born scientist, and then we beat it out of them. A few trickle through the system with their wonder and enthusiasm for science intact.
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If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
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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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Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
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The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).
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Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
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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.
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Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
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We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers.
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The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.
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