There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.
CARL SAGANPerhaps the depth of love can be calibrated by the number of different selves that are actively involved in a given relationship.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it.
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One of the great commandments of science is: Mistrust arguments from authority.
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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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You are worth about 3 dollars worth in chemicals.
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Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
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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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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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The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
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For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
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Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
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Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.
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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
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