I’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
CARL SAGANWe all have a thirst for wonder. It’s a deeply human quality. Science and religion are both bound up with it.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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The visions we offer our children shape the future.
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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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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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The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
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If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.
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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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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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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go.
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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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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.
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We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
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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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