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.
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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Science is a way to not fool ourselves.
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I’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
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And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
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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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Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
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Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
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Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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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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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
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