Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
CARL SAGANWhat an astonishing thing a book is.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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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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Writing is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
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We are all stardust.
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Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
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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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Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.
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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
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Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
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I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves.
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Science is a way to not fool ourselves.
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The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
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For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
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Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
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The visions we offer our children shape the future.
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