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Carl Sagan Quote - Arguments 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.

Arguments 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.

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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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Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
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We can’t help it. Life looks for life.
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The significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage.
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People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.
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I don’t want to believe. I want to know.
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And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
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The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).
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Your god is too small for my universe.
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You are worth about 3 dollars worth in chemicals.
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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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All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.
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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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Writing is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
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Every star may be a sun to someone.
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Science is an attempt, largely successful, to understand the world, to get a grip on things, to get hold of ourselves, to steer a safe course.
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Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
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Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
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Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
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I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves.
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Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
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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.
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We are all stardust.
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Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgement, the manner in which information is coordinated and used.
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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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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.
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