We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
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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The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
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Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
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We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.
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Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
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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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Your god is too small for my universe.
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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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One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.
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The total number of stars in the Universe is larger than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth.
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Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean. We are ready at last to set sail for the stars.
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What an astonishing thing a book is.
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You are worth about 3 dollars worth in chemicals.
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We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
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The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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Writing is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
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