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 SAGANAn atheist is someone who is certain that God does not exist, someone who has compelling evidence against the existence of God.
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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There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.
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Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.
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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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Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).
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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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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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Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.
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I’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
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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 notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.
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