Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
CARL SAGANWe are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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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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Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
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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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The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life.
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I’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
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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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People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.
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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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There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.
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Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you’re in love, you want to tell the world.
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Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
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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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Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
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If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go.
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Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
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