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.
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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There are as many atoms in one molecule of DNA as there are stars in a typical galaxy.
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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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Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
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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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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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I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
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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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Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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Nature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
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Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
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People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.
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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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There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.
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