Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
CARL SAGANIf you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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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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Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgement, the manner in which information is coordinated and used.
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The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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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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We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.
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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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Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
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Writing is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
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Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
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If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
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To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.
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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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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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Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
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The visions we offer our children shape the future.
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