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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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There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.
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Delicate Forbidden Matter Scare Science Sensitive Truth
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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Dependent Exquisite Live Science Society Technology
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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Claim Evidence Extraordinary One Liner Requirement Science
People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.
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Believe Deep People Reason Stupidity
Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
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Exception Exrinction Rule Survival
Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.
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Advance Agriculture History Live Lost Medicine Save Science Vast War
Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.
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Disturb Glory Stupidity
Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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Ash Rise Science Stars
We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.
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Harvest Stars Stuff Sunlight
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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Book Dead Glance Hear Perhaps Reading Time Voice Voyage
Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
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Deception Demonstrate Emotion Human
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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Assure Delusion Grasp Persistence Satisfaction Universe
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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Assume Come Consideration Danger Extreme Ourselves Outside Problem Solution
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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Book Content Finish Library Lifetime Percent Reading Time Trick Week
Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
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Inspirational Life Magnificent Opportunity Positive Provide Thankful
The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
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Ambition Harmony Human Perfection Requirement Universe

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