If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
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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The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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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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Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
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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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We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
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Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean. We are ready at last to set sail for the stars.
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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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Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
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One of the greatest gifts adults can give – to their offspring and to their society – is to read to children.
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You have to know the past to understand the present.
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Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
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And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
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One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.
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We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.
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The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it.
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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
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The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
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Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
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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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There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.
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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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Every star may be a sun to someone.
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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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