I’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
CARL SAGAN
Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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I’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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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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We live in a vast and awesome universe in which, daily, suns are made and worlds destroyed, where humanity clings to an obscure clod of rock.
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Nature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
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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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Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you’re in love, you want to tell the world.
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I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
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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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Don’t judge everyone else by your own limited experience.
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Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.
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Our ancestors lived out of doors. They were as familiar with the night sky as most of us are with our favorite television programs.
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If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
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People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.
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