Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
CARL SAGAN
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.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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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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One of the greatest gifts adults can give – to their offspring and to their society – is to read to children.
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Every 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.
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We can’t help it. Life looks for life.
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Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
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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 a way to not fool ourselves.
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Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).
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Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
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Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
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Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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