Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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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A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called “leaves”) imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles.
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The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.
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Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
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Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
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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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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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Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.
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Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.
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Not all birds can fly. What separates the flyers from the walkers is the ability to take off.
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You have to know the past to understand the present.
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Science is a way to not fool ourselves.
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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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If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go.
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Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.
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One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.
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