Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
CARL SAGANExcept in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Not all birds can fly. What separates the flyers from the walkers is the ability to take off.
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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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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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Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.
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The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.
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You have to know the past to understand the present.
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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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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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Science is a way to not fool ourselves.
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We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
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Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you’re in love, you want to tell the world.
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All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.
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Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
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If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go.
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Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).
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