Don’t judge everyone else by your own limited experience.
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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Perhaps the depth of love can be calibrated by the number of different selves that are actively involved in a given relationship.
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Not all birds can fly. What separates the flyers from the walkers is the ability to take off.
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Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
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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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Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.
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For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
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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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Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
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I’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
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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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The visions we offer our children shape the future.
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The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what’s true.
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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
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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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Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
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