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.
CARL SAGANWriting is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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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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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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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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Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
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The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.
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Every star may be a sun to someone.
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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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The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it.
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What an astonishing thing a book is.
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Nature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
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Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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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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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
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We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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