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Each Quotes by Carl Sagan
- Imagine a room awash in gasoline, and there are two implacable enemies in that room. One of them has nine thousand matches. The other has…
- Chlorine is a deadly poison gas employed on European battlefields in World War I. Sodium is a corrosive metal which burns upon contact with water.…
- We live at a moment when our relationships to each other, and to all other beings with whom we share this planet, are up for…
- Absolute certainty will always elude us. We will always be mired in error. The most each generation can hope for is to reduce the error.…
- There are in fact 100 billion galaxies, each of which contain something like a 100 billion stars. Think of how many stars, and planets, and…
- What distinguishes our species is thought. The cerebral cortex is in a way a liberation. We need no longer be trapped in the genetically inherited…
- The Bill of Rights decoupled religion from the state, in part because so many religions were steeped in an absolutist frame of mind - each…
- It's a lazy Saturday afternoon, there's a couple lying naked in bed reading Encyclopediea Brittannica to each other, and arguing about whether the Andromeda Galaxy…
- You're an interesting species. An interesting mix. You're capable of such beautiful dreams, and such horrible nightmares. You feel so lost, so cut off, so…
- What a marvelous cooperative arrangement - plants and animals each inhaling each other's exhalations, a kind of planet-wide mutual mouth-to-stoma resuscitation, the entire elegant cycle…
- In all our searching, the only thing we've found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other.
- And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
- Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of…
- What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny,…
More Each Quotes
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other… — Aristotle
- Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so… — Richard Armour
- A system is in equilibrium when the forces constituting it are arranged in such a way as to compensate each other, like… — Rudolf Arnheim
- I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each… — Antonin Artaud
- I could be on 52nd and Third in Manhattan up and ask a strange for directions and they will help you, that's… — Rodney Atkins
- In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- If a sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on top of each other, it can be assured that disaster is not… — Norman Ralph Augustine
- God loves each of us as if there were only one of us. — Saint Augustine
- Each day provides its own gifts. — Marcus Aurelius
- Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle. — Marcus Aurelius
- Each book I've done somehow finds its own unique form, a specific way it has to be written, and once I find… — Paul Auster