Science is a way to not fool ourselves.
CARL SAGANThe universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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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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The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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The total number of stars in the Universe is larger than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth.
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Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you’re in love, you want to tell the world.
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For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
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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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Every kid starts out as a natural-born scientist, and then we beat it out of them. A few trickle through the system with their wonder and enthusiasm for science intact.
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The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
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We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.
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Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgement, the manner in which information is coordinated and used.
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If I finish a book a week, I will read only a few thousand books in my lifetime, about a tenth of a percent of the contents of the greatest libraries of our time. The trick is to know which books to read.
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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
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We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.
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