Science is a way to not fool ourselves.
CARL SAGANEvery kid starts out as a natural-born scientist, and then we beat it out of them. A few trickle through the system with their wonder and enthusiasm for science intact.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
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We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
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Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.
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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
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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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Writing is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
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Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
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The significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage.
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I don’t want to believe. I want to know.
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Don’t judge everyone else by your own limited experience.
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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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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
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