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Carl Sagan Quote - People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.

People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.

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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.
CARL SAGAN

desperatel Determination Preference Prejudice Puzzle True Truth Want Work
Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean. We are ready at last to set sail for the stars.
CARL SAGAN

Cosmic Enough Explore Investigation Nature Ocean Ready Sail Shore Stars Wander
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.
CARL SAGAN

Apple Blood Calcium DNA Interior Nitrogen Stars Teeth
Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
CARL SAGAN

Distance Greatness Ignorance Mistake Perspective
There are as many atoms in one molecule of DNA as there are stars in a typical galaxy.
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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
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Argument Cure Ideas Suppression
Writing is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
CARL SAGAN

Blind Citizen Distant Greatness Human Invention People Togetherness Writing
The significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage.
CARL SAGAN

Courage Determination Fragile Live Planet Significance Wisdom
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
CARL SAGAN

Body Knowledge Science Thinking
We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
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Destiny Hands Science Stars Stuff
Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.
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Disturb Glory Stupidity
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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Depth Different Giving Involvement Love Number Perhaps Relationship
What an astonishing thing a book is.
CARL SAGAN

Astonish Book One Liner
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
CARL SAGAN

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If I finish a book a week, I will read only a few thousand books in my lifetime, about a tenth of a percent of the contents of the greatest libraries of our time. The trick is to know which books to read.
CARL SAGAN

Book Content Finish Library Lifetime Percent Reading Time Trick Week
We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
CARL SAGAN

Butterfly Forever Human Nature Thinking

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