I’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
CARL SAGANNot all birds can fly. What separates the flyers from the walkers is the ability to take off.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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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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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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For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
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Writing is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
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The significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage.
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Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
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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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Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.
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You are worth about 3 dollars worth in chemicals.
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We can’t help it. Life looks for life.
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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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When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion.
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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
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We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.
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