Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
CARL SAGANNot all birds can fly. What separates the flyers from the walkers is the ability to take off.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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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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Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
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Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.
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If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go.
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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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We all have a thirst for wonder. It’s a deeply human quality. Science and religion are both bound up with it.
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There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.
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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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Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
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Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
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Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
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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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There are as many atoms in one molecule of DNA as there are stars in a typical galaxy.
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