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Carl Sagan Quote - You are worth about 3 dollars worth in chemicals.

You are worth about 3 dollars worth in chemicals.

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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 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.
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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 universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
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There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.
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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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We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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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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Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
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Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
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The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
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I don’t want to believe. I want to know.
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Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
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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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The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.
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