There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.
CARL SAGANI consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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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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The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life.
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We can’t help it. Life looks for life.
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We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
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A galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars – billions upon billions of stars. Every star may be a sun to someone.
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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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An atheist is someone who is certain that God does not exist, someone who has compelling evidence against the existence of God.
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The very act of understanding is a celebration of joining, merging, even if on a very modest scale, with the magnificence of the Cosmos.
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The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.
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When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion.
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The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it.
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The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
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Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
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