If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
CARL SAGANSomewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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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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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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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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All over the world there are enormous numbers of smart, even gifted, people who harbor a passion for science.
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If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go.
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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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The very act of understanding is a celebration of joining, merging, even if on a very modest scale, with the magnificence of the Cosmos.
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Science is a way to not fool ourselves.
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgement, the manner in which information is coordinated and used.
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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.
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To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.
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If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.
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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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