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Carl Sagan Quote - The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

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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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Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.
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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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Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
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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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There are as many atoms in one molecule of DNA as there are stars in a typical galaxy.
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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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I 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.
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Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
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Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
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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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We can’t help it. Life looks for life.
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I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture and our concern for the future can all be tested by how well we support our libraries.
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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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Your god is too small for my universe.
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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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