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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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If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.
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Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
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I don’t want to believe. I want to know.
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Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean. We are ready at last to set sail for the stars.
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Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.
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Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
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Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
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If I finish a book a week, I will read only a few thousand books in my lifetime, about a tenth of a percent of the contents of the greatest libraries of our time. The trick is to know which books to read.
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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 brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
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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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You are worth about 3 dollars worth in chemicals.
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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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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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To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.
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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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I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
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Science is a way to not fool ourselves.
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Every star may be a sun to someone.
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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 are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
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The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
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Science is an attempt, largely successful, to understand the world, to get a grip on things, to get hold of ourselves, to steer a safe course.
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An atheist is someone who is certain that God does not exist, someone who has compelling evidence against the existence of God.
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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