Every star may be a sun to someone.
CARL SAGANPerhaps the depth of love can be calibrated by the number of different selves that are actively involved in a given relationship.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
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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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What an astonishing thing a book is.
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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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Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).
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People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.
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Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
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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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Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
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Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
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We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
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Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
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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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