Science is a way to not fool ourselves.
CARL SAGANWe make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
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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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If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
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Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.
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Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).
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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.
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Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
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I don’t want to believe. I want to know.
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The universe is a pretty big place. If it’s just us, seems like an awful waste of space.
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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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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 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 notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.
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