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 SAGANTo live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
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Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.
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To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.
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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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Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
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The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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You are worth about 3 dollars worth in chemicals.
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Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.
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And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
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I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture and our concern for the future can all be tested by how well we support our libraries.
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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 a way for the cosmos to know itself.
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Don’t judge everyone else by your own limited experience.
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If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go.
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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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