Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you’re in love, you want to tell the world.
CARL SAGANWe are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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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 not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
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The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.
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The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it.
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I don’t want to believe. I want to know.
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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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I’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
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Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
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And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
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A galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars – billions upon billions of stars. Every star may be a sun to someone.
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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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Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.
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Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.
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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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What an astonishing thing a book is.
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