People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.
CARL SAGANThe absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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You are worth about 3 dollars worth in chemicals.
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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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Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you’re in love, you want to tell the world.
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One of the great commandments of science is: Mistrust arguments from authority.
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The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
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Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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The total number of stars in the Universe is larger than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth.
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I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
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We live in a vast and awesome universe in which, daily, suns are made and worlds destroyed, where humanity clings to an obscure clod of rock.
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We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers.
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The very act of understanding is a celebration of joining, merging, even if on a very modest scale, with the magnificence of the Cosmos.
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The universe is a pretty big place. If it’s just us, seems like an awful waste of space.
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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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