I don’t want to believe. I want to know.
CARL SAGANFor me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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Nature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
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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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We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
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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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For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
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All over the world there are enormous numbers of smart, even gifted, people who harbor a passion for science.
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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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One of the great commandments of science is: Mistrust arguments from authority.
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People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.
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The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
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Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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Science is a way to not fool ourselves.
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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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