People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.
CARL SAGANOur species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
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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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To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.
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The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
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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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Writing is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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The visions we offer our children shape the future.
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The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life.
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If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.
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Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
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Science is a way to not fool ourselves.
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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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We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers.
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All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.
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