There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.
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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One of the greatest gifts adults can give – to their offspring and to their society – is to read to children.
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I’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
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If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
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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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Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgement, the manner in which information is coordinated and used.
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I don’t want to believe. I want to know.
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Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
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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 are worth about 3 dollars worth in chemicals.
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Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
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Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
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Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).
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Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
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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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