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.
CARL SAGANIf it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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We are all stardust.
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We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
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We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.
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Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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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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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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Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
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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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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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Our ancestors lived out of doors. They were as familiar with the night sky as most of us are with our favorite television programs.
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Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
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Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
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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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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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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
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