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Carl Sagan Quote - Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgement, the manner in which information is coordinated and used.

Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgement, the manner in which information is coordinated and used.

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Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you’re in love, you want to tell the world.
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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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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
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Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
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The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
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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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The very act of understanding is a celebration of joining, merging, even if on a very modest scale, with the magnificence of the Cosmos.
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People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.
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The 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.
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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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All over the world there are enormous numbers of smart, even gifted, people who harbor a passion for science.
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Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.
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We are all stardust.
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There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.
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We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
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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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