Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool 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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One of the greatest gifts adults can give – to their offspring and to their society – is to read to children.
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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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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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The universe is a pretty big place. If it’s just us, seems like an awful waste of space.
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Science is a way to not fool ourselves.
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Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
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Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
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We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
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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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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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Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.
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Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.
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Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).
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Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
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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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