The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
CARL SAGANThe cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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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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Your god is too small for my universe.
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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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Nature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
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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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Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.
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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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We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
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I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
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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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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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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion.
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The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what’s true.
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We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers.
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