We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
CARL SAGANNature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
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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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If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go.
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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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Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgement, the manner in which information is coordinated and used.
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Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
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For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
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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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Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
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To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.
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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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Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
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The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
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