The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
CARL SAGANThere are as many atoms in one molecule of DNA as there are stars in a typical galaxy.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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The very act of understanding is a celebration of joining, merging, even if on a very modest scale, with the magnificence of the Cosmos.
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We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
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Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.
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Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
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Nature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
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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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We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good.
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One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.
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Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
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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 are star stuff harvesting sunlight.
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Don’t judge everyone else by your own limited experience.
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You have to know the past to understand the present.
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Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
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