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Carl Sagan Quote - Science is an attempt, largely successful, to understand the world, to get a grip on things, to get hold of ourselves, to steer a safe course.

Science is an attempt, largely successful, to understand the world, to get a grip on things, to get hold of ourselves, to steer a safe course.

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Science is a way to not fool ourselves.
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Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
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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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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
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We are all stardust.
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Science is an attempt, largely successful, to understand the world, to get a grip on things, to get hold of ourselves, to steer a safe course.
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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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If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
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Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
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I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture and our concern for the future can all be tested by how well we support our libraries.
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Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
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I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves.
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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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Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.
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We live in a vast and awesome universe in which, daily, suns are made and worlds destroyed, where humanity clings to an obscure clod of rock.
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Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
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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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All over the world there are enormous numbers of smart, even gifted, people who harbor a passion for science.
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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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The significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage.
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You are worth about 3 dollars worth in chemicals.
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A galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars – billions upon billions of stars. Every star may be a sun to someone.
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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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Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.
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One of the great commandments of science is: Mistrust arguments from authority.
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