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.
CARL SAGANAnd you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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You are worth about 3 dollars worth in chemicals.
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If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go.
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To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.
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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 an attempt, largely successful, to understand the world, to get a grip on things, to get hold of ourselves, to steer a safe course.
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And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
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Perhaps the depth of love can be calibrated by the number of different selves that are actively involved in a given relationship.
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Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
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Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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The visions we offer our children shape the future.
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Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean. We are ready at last to set sail for the stars.
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Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
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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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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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Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
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