People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.
CARL SAGANThe universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Your god is too small for my universe.
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The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
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Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
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The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it.
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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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There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.
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Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
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Our ancestors lived out of doors. They were as familiar with the night sky as most of us are with our favorite television programs.
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Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
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Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.
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To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.
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What an astonishing thing a book is.
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Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion.
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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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