I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
CARL SAGANThe 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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I don’t want to believe. I want to know.
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The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.
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I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves.
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One of the great commandments of science is: Mistrust arguments from authority.
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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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Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
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Science is a way to not fool ourselves.
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Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
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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 live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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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 not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
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The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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