For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
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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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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An atheist is someone who is certain that God does not exist, someone who has compelling evidence against the existence of God.
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I’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
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One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.
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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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When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion.
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And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
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Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).
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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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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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Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.
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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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Nature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
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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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The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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