I don’t want to believe. I want to know.
CARL SAGANWriting is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
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Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
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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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The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.
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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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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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The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.
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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 of the great commandments of science is: Mistrust arguments from authority.
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For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
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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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We are all stardust.
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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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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
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