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Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.

Carl Sagan

Science is a way to not fool ourselves.
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Fools One Liner Ourselves Science
Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
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Compatible Profound Science Soource Spiritual
The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.
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There are as many atoms in one molecule of DNA as there are stars in a typical galaxy.
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Atom DNA Galaxy Molecule Science Stars Typical
The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what’s true.
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desperatel Determination Preference Prejudice Puzzle True Truth Want Work
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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Book Content Finish Library Lifetime Percent Reading Time Trick Week
I’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
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Atheist Conviction Courage
We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
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Destiny Hands Science Stars Stuff
The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it.
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Anticipation Anxiety Future Pay Price
Every star may be a sun to someone.
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The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.
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Exclusive Mutual Notion Science Spiritual
If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
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Deserve Destroy Justice Science Truth
Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).
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Arguments from authority carry little weight, authorities have made mistakes in the past. They will do so again in the future. Perhaps a better way to say it is that in science there are no authorities; at most, there are experts.
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One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.
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One of the great commandments of science is: Mistrust arguments from authority.
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Argument Authority Command Greatness Science Trust

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