Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
CARL SAGANExcept in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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We can’t help it. Life looks for life.
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The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
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Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it.
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We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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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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Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
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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 notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.
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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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Writing is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
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Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
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For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
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The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
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