What an astonishing thing a book is.
CARL SAGANTo live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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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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Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
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People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.
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Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
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Science is a way to not fool ourselves.
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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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I’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
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I don’t want to believe. I want to know.
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Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
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Science is an attempt, largely successful, to understand the world, to get a grip on things, to get hold of ourselves, to steer a safe course.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
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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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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 of the great commandments of science is: Mistrust arguments from authority.
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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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Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.
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Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
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The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life.
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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 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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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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We are all stardust.
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The significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage.
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
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