Every star may be a sun to someone.
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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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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Don’t judge everyone else by your own limited experience.
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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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We live in a vast and awesome universe in which, daily, suns are made and worlds destroyed, where humanity clings to an obscure clod of rock.
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The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life.
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People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.
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If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
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One of the greatest gifts adults can give – to their offspring and to their society – is to read to children.
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To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.
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What an astonishing thing a book is.
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I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture and our concern for the future can all be tested by how well we support our libraries.
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The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
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Science is a way to not fool ourselves.
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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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