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.
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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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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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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To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.
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Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
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Every star may be a sun to someone.
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We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
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There are as many atoms in one molecule of DNA as there are stars in a typical galaxy.
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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.
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Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.
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The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life.
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
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If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.
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We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
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Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
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Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
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For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
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Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
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The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
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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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Our ancestors lived out of doors. They were as familiar with the night sky as most of us are with our favorite television programs.
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Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
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