An atheist is someone who is certain that God does not exist, someone who has compelling evidence against the existence of God.
CARL SAGANNature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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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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I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture and our concern for the future can all be tested by how well we support our libraries.
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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 like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
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If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.
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The universe is a pretty big place. If it’s just us, seems like an awful waste of space.
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The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
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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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We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.
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Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you’re in love, you want to tell the world.
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The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
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One of the great commandments of science is: Mistrust arguments from authority.
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Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
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The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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Writing is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
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