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.
CARL SAGANThe Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
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The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
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I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
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We can’t help it. Life looks for life.
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We all have a thirst for wonder. It’s a deeply human quality. Science and religion are both bound up with it.
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The significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage.
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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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Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
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For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
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You are worth about 3 dollars worth in chemicals.
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People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.
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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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