The library connects us with the insight and knowledge, painfully extr…

Carl Sagan
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The library connects us with the insight and knowledge, painfully extracted from Nature, of the greatest minds that ever were, with the best teachers, drawn from the entire planet and from all our history, to instruct us without tiring, and to inspire us to make our own contribution to the collective knowledge of the human species. ✨ Carl Sagan (2011). Cosmos, p.307, Ballantine Books
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