Arguments from authority carry little weight, authorities have made mistakes in the past. They will do so again in the future. Perhaps a better way to say it is that in science there are no authorities; at most, there are experts.
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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For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
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Nature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
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If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go.
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Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you’re in love, you want to tell the world.
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Every star may be a sun to someone.
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You have to know the past to understand the present.
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What an astonishing thing a book is.
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Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.
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Perhaps the depth of love can be calibrated by the number of different selves that are actively involved in a given relationship.
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Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).
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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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We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
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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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All over the world there are enormous numbers of smart, even gifted, people who harbor a passion for science.
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Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
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