Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
CARL SAGANWe are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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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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The universe is a pretty big place. If it’s just us, seems like an awful waste of space.
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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
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Perhaps the depth of love can be calibrated by the number of different selves that are actively involved in a given relationship.
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If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go.
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We are all stardust.
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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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Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
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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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Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
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The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.
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Our ancestors lived out of doors. They were as familiar with the night sky as most of us are with our favorite television programs.
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The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
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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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