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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Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
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Writing is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
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There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.
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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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There are as many atoms in one molecule of DNA as there are stars in a typical galaxy.
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Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
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We are all stardust.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
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Writing is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
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Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
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I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
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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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The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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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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We all have a thirst for wonder. It’s a deeply human quality. Science and religion are both bound up with it.
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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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Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean. We are ready at last to set sail for the stars.
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A galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars – billions upon billions of stars. Every star may be a sun to someone.
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Science is an attempt, largely successful, to understand the world, to get a grip on things, to get hold of ourselves, to steer a safe course.
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We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.
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Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
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We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.
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If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.
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The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.
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Science is a way to not fool ourselves.
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