Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
CARL SAGANNature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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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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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.
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Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
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Your god is too small for my universe.
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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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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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Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you’re in love, you want to tell the world.
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Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.
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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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Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
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We are all stardust.
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We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good.
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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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Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.
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