Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you’re in love, you want to tell the world.
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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People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.
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We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
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Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.
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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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The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what’s true.
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There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.
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Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
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If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go.
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The visions we offer our children shape the future.
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Your god is too small for my universe.
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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 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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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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I’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
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