For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
CARL SAGANThe cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
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If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go.
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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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Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you’re in love, you want to tell the world.
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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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I’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
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Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
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We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
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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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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
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Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
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Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
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The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
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I don’t want to believe. I want to know.
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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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You are worth about 3 dollars worth in chemicals.
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Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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There are as many atoms in one molecule of DNA as there are stars in a typical galaxy.
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An atheist is someone who is certain that God does not exist, someone who has compelling evidence against the existence of God.
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The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
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If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.
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