Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
CARL SAGANAdvances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
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Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
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You have to know the past to understand the present.
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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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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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The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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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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Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean. We are ready at last to set sail for the stars.
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I’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
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We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).
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Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
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Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
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