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Carl Sagan Quote - I’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.

I’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.

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Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
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Arguments from authority carry little weight, authorities have made mistakes in the past. They will do so again in the future. Perhaps a better way to say it is that in science there are no authorities; at most, there are experts.
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Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
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Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
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We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
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You have to know the past to understand the present.
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Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
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If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.
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What an astonishing thing a book is.
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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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The universe is a pretty big place. If it’s just us, seems like an awful waste of space.
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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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There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.
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One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.
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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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I don’t want to believe. I want to know.
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