...allow people long dead to talk inside our heads.

" During the 99% occupation of the planet, no one could read or write. No big discoveries have been made yet. Apart from direct experience, almost everything we know is transmitted orally, there is no need to think about it! "Over tens and hundreds of generations, information will gradually be distorted, lost in phone calls.
"Books change all that. Books that can be bought cheaply allow us to carefully question the past, rely on our own kind of wisdom, understand the point of view of others, not just those in power. Ponder with the best teachers the ideas that have been meticulously taken from nature by the greatest minds of all time, coming from all over the world, throughout our history. They let people talk in our long-dead heads. Books can accompany us everywhere, patient books, where we slowly understand, repeat the difficult passages as much as we want, we never criticize our mistakes ...
"Books can be used to understand the world, to participate in a democratic society."

~ Carl Sagan, in his 1995 book The Demon World. Science as a Candle in the Dark

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