I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves.
CARL SAGANNot explaining science seems to me perverse. When you’re in love, you want to tell the world.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.
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A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called “leaves”) imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles.
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Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
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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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You have to know the past to understand the present.
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We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
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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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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
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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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Don’t judge everyone else by your own limited experience.
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We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
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If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
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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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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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