We all have a thirst for wonder. It’s a deeply human quality. Science and religion are both bound up with it.
CARL SAGANThe absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Don’t judge everyone else by your own limited experience.
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The universe is a pretty big place. If it’s just us, seems like an awful waste of space.
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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
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And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
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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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Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
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Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
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Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
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The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it.
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Writing is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
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Your god is too small for my universe.
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Our ancestors lived out of doors. They were as familiar with the night sky as most of us are with our favorite television programs.
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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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For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
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