And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
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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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 price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it.
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Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.
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We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
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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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I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
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Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion.
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If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.
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The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.
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Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
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If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
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The visions we offer our children shape the future.
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Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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