For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
CARL SAGANArguments from authority carry little weight, authorities have made mistakes in the past. They will do so again in the future. Perhaps a better way to say it is that in science there are no authorities; at most, there are experts.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
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We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
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Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.
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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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Nature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
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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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The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.
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The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.
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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
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Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
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I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
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