Science is a way to not fool ourselves.
CARL SAGANEvery kid starts out as a natural-born scientist, and then we beat it out of them. A few trickle through the system with their wonder and enthusiasm for science intact.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called “leaves”) imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles.
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The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.
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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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We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
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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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Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.
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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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I’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
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All over the world there are enormous numbers of smart, even gifted, people who harbor a passion for science.
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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
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To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.
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Every star may be a sun to someone.
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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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