The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
CARL SAGANStars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
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The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life.
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Every star may be a sun to someone.
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We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.
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What an astonishing thing a book is.
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Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
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The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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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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Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
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Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.
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Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
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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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Perhaps the depth of love can be calibrated by the number of different selves that are actively involved in a given relationship.
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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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Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
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