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Carl Sagan Quote - Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.

Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.

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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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Nature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
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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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If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
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Don’t judge everyone else by your own limited experience.
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An atheist is someone who is certain that God does not exist, someone who has compelling evidence against the existence of God.
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Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
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A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called “leaves”) imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles.
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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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Writing is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
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The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
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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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What an astonishing thing a book is.
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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
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We can’t help it. Life looks for life.
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