Book Quote by Carl Sagan Download Open image ““The book of Nature had waited more than a millennium for a reader.”” — Carl Sagan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Nature
“Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in… — George Washington Carver Copy Share Image
“Books are the essence of life. And there is nothing like a good story to pass the time.” — Victoria Hislop Copy Share Image
“I thought maybe Against Nature would be a book about someone who viewed things the way I did - someone trying to live a… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
“Nature is transcendental, exists primarily, necessarily, ever works and advances, yet takes no thought for the morrow.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“What manner of people they were only books and other people could tell... and the tale was a long and gory one dating from… — Robert Edison Fulton Jr Copy Share Image
“Nature had been busy designing him, as she had been busy with all normal men, for the purpose of loving. She had spent ten… — Jack London "Martin Eden Copy Share Image
“The whole of Nature is a book, the heavens a scroll; and they were intended to be used as such.” — John Daniel Copy Share Image
“The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.” — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
“There was something calming in the reticence of all those books, their willingness to wait years, decades even, for the right reader to come… — Nicholas Carr Copy Share Image
It is sometimes said that scientists are unromantic, that their passion to figure out robs the world of beauty and mystery. But is it… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The prediction of nuclear winter is drawn not, of course, from any direct experience with the consequences of global nuclear war, but rather from… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion or in politics, but it is not the path to knowledge; it has no… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Telepathy’ literally means to feel at a distance, just as ‘telephone’ is to hear at a distance and ‘television’ is to see at a… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“On the scale of worlds—to say nothing of stars or galaxies—humans are inconsequential, a thin film of life on an obscure and solitary lump… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies,… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
In our time, we have sifted the sands of Mars, we have established a presence there, we have fulfilled a century of dreams! — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“[ When a religious couple wrote to Sagan about fulfilled prophecies, he wrote back in May 1996 :] If ‘fulfilled prophecy’ is your criterion,… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors. The library connects us with the insight and knowledge, painfully… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
We live on a hunk of rock and metal that circles a humdrum star that is one of 400 billion other stars that make… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
A tiny blue dot set in a sunbeam. Here it is. That's where we live. That's home. We humans are one species and this… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image