Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
CARL SAGANThe very act of understanding is a celebration of joining, merging, even if on a very modest scale, with the magnificence of the Cosmos.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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I’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
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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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All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.
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Don’t judge everyone else by your own limited experience.
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An atheist is someone who is certain that God does not exist, someone who has compelling evidence against the existence of God.
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A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called “leaves”) imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles.
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The visions we offer our children shape the future.
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I don’t want to believe. I want to know.
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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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Writing is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
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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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Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
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I 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.
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The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
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