You are worth about 3 dollars worth in chemicals.
CARL SAGANOne 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.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you’re in love, you want to tell the world.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
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The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
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I don’t want to believe. I want to know.
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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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Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
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For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
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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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We live in a vast and awesome universe in which, daily, suns are made and worlds destroyed, where humanity clings to an obscure clod of rock.
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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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There are as many atoms in one molecule of DNA as there are stars in a typical galaxy.
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I’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
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The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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