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Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.

Carl Sagan

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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Argument Authority Expert Future Mistake Past Weight
For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
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Creature Love Vast
Perhaps the depth of love can be calibrated by the number of different selves that are actively involved in a given relationship.
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Depth Different Giving Involvement Love Number Perhaps Relationship
The universe is a pretty big place. If it’s just us, seems like an awful waste of space.
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Awful Place Pretty Science Space Universe Waste
Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
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Elegant Imagination Nature Stuble
We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers.
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Courage Depth Significance World
The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
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Argument Cure Ideas Suppression
Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
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Across Sea Space Stars Sun
Science is a way to not fool ourselves.
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Fools One Liner Ourselves Science
We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
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Butterfly Forever Human Nature Thinking
Every kid starts out as a natural-born scientist, and then we beat it out of them. A few trickle through the system with their wonder and enthusiasm for science intact.
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Beat Born Enthusiam Kids Natural Science Scientist Start System Wonder
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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Cosmic Disagree Finding Galaxy Human Love Mercy Perspective Precious
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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Body Knowledge Science Thinking
We can’t help it. Life looks for life.
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Help Life Look Science
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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Act Celebration Cosmic Magnificant Merge Modest Scale Understand
I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture and our concern for the future can all be tested by how well we support our libraries.
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Awareness Book Civilization Concern Culture Depth Future Health Library Test

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