The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
CARL SAGANA book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called “leaves”) imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
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Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.
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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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Every star may be a sun to someone.
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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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Every kid starts out as a natural-born scientist, and then we beat it out of them. A few trickle through the system with their wonder and enthusiasm for science intact.
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Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
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There are as many atoms in one molecule of DNA as there are stars in a typical galaxy.
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Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
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I don’t want to believe. I want to know.
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I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
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Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
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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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