Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
CARL SAGANAcross the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Your god is too small for my universe.
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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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Science is a way to not fool ourselves.
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Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
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Perhaps the depth of love can be calibrated by the number of different selves that are actively involved in a given relationship.
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We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
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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 of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
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A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called “leaves”) imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles.
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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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Writing is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
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Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
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If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go.
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Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
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