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 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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We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.
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Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
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The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.
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If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go.
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Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
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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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A galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars – billions upon billions of stars. Every star may be a sun to someone.
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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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Your god is too small for my universe.
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One of the great commandments of science is: Mistrust arguments from authority.
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If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.
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The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
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