If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
CARL SAGANI 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.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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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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The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
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If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go.
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Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
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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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People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.
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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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One of the great commandments of science is: Mistrust arguments from authority.
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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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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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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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The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
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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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We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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Every kid starts out as a natural-born scientist, and then we beat it out of them. A few trickle through the system with their wonder and enthusiasm for science intact.
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