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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One of the great commandments of science is: Mistrust arguments from authority.
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Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
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For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
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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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We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers.
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I’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
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Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
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Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
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There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.
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And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
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Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
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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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Nature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
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We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.
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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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