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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.

Carl Sagan

Every star may be a sun to someone.
CARL SAGAN

Deep One Liner Stars Sun
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.
CARL SAGAN

Cosmic Enough Explore Investigation Nature Ocean Ready Sail Shore Stars Wander
Your god is too small for my universe.
CARL SAGAN

Atheist God Universe
The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
CARL SAGAN

Argument Cure Ideas Suppression
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
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
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
All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.
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Civilization Extinct Science Space
Nature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
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Build Death Nature Sentimental Truth
I’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
CARL SAGAN

Atheist Conviction Courage
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
You have to know the past to understand the present.
CARL SAGAN

Deep Inspirational One Liner Past Present Understand
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
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
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
CARL SAGAN

Dependent Exquisite Live Science Society Technology
A galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars – billions upon billions of stars. Every star may be a sun to someone.
CARL SAGAN

Compose Dust Galaxy Gas Stars Sun

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 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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