You are worth about 3 dollars worth in chemicals.
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’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
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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 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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Writing is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
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All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.
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Science is an attempt, largely successful, to understand the world, to get a grip on things, to get hold of ourselves, to steer a safe course.
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We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
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Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
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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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We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers.
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What an astonishing thing a book is.
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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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Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.
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One of the great commandments of science is: Mistrust arguments from authority.
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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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To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.
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Our ancestors lived out of doors. They were as familiar with the night sky as most of us are with our favorite television programs.
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Your god is too small for my universe.
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Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
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And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
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Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
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There are as many atoms in one molecule of DNA as there are stars in a typical galaxy.
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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
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I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
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One of the greatest gifts adults can give – to their offspring and to their society – is to read to children.
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