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.
CARL SAGANExcept in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.
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I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture and our concern for the future can all be tested by how well we support our libraries.
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The very act of understanding is a celebration of joining, merging, even if on a very modest scale, with the magnificence of the Cosmos.
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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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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
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Science is a way to not fool ourselves.
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What an astonishing thing a book is.
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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We can’t help it. Life looks for life.
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We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.
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When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion.
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Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
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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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The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what’s true.
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