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.
CARL SAGANI’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
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Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
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Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
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People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.
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The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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Science is a way to not fool ourselves.
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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
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The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.
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We live in a vast and awesome universe in which, daily, suns are made and worlds destroyed, where humanity clings to an obscure clod of rock.
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Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
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You have to know the past to understand the present.
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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 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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