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.
CARL SAGANExploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean. We are ready at last to set sail for the stars.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
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Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
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We can’t help it. Life looks for life.
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Science is a way to not fool ourselves.
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We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
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One of the greatest gifts adults can give – to their offspring and to their society – is to read to children.
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We live in a vast and awesome universe in which, daily, suns are made and worlds destroyed, where humanity clings to an obscure clod of rock.
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Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
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The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life.
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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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We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is 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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Science is an attempt, largely successful, to understand the world, to get a grip on things, to get hold of ourselves, to steer a safe course.
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Nature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
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The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.
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