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Carl Sagan Quote - Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).

Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).

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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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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
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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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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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Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
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The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
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Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).
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And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
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For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
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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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The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life.
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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 universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
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If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.
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I don’t want to believe. I want to know.
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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We are all stardust.
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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves.
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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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Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.
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Science is a way to not fool ourselves.
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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 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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I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
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All over the world there are enormous numbers of smart, even gifted, people who harbor a passion for science.
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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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