The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.
CARL SAGANThe truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what’s true.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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One of the greatest gifts adults can give – to their offspring and to their society – is to read to children.
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People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.
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You are worth about 3 dollars worth in chemicals.
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Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
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Not all birds can fly. What separates the flyers from the walkers is the ability to take off.
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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 are star stuff harvesting sunlight.
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We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
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We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
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The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
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Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
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Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).
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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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