If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go.
CARL SAGANWe can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Not all birds can fly. What separates the flyers from the walkers is the ability to take off.
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The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
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An atheist is someone who is certain that God does not exist, someone who has compelling evidence against the existence of God.
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Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
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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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You have to know the past to understand the present.
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You are worth about 3 dollars worth in chemicals.
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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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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
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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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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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We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.
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People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.
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