Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
CARL SAGANImagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
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Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
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Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).
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Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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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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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
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If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.
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All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.
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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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The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
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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 consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves.
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Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
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