The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
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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You are worth about 3 dollars worth in chemicals.
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One of the greatest gifts adults can give – to their offspring and to their society – is to read to children.
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Your god is too small for my universe.
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Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
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Science is a way to not fool ourselves.
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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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All over the world there are enormous numbers of smart, even gifted, people who harbor a passion for science.
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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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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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If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go.
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If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
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We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good.
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Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
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We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
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Nature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
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