Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
CARL SAGANThe Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
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A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called “leaves”) imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles.
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We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.
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Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
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Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.
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Arguments from authority carry little weight, authorities have made mistakes in the past. They will do so again in the future. Perhaps a better way to say it is that in science there are no authorities; at most, there are experts.
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One of the great commandments of science is: Mistrust arguments from authority.
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Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
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Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
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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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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
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The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
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Every star may be a sun to someone.
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The total number of stars in the Universe is larger than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth.
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