If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
CARL SAGANScience 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.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Don’t judge everyone else by your own limited experience.
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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
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Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean. We are ready at last to set sail for the stars.
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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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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What an astonishing thing a book is.
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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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All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.
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We can’t help it. Life looks for life.
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The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.
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The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life.
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The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.
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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 beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.
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The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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