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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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Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgement, the manner in which information is coordinated and used.
CARL SAGAN

Alone Coordinate Deal Greatness Information Intelligence Judgement Knowledge Manner Smart Used
One of the great commandments of science is: Mistrust arguments from authority.
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Argument Authority Command Greatness Science Trust
I’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
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Atheist Conviction Courage
Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
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Comfortable Fantasy Inspirational Truth
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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Dependent Exquisite Live Science Society Technology
The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.
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Exclusive Mutual Notion Science Spiritual
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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Assemble Book Leaf Print Tree
Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.
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Advance Agriculture History Live Lost Medicine Save Science Vast War
We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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Dust Live Sun Suspend
Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
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Distance Greatness Ignorance Mistake Perspective
The visions we offer our children shape the future.
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Children Future Inspirational Ofer Shape Vision
When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion.
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Distant Fusion Look Night Nuclear Science Shine Stars
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.
CARL SAGAN

Book Content Finish Library Lifetime Percent Reading Time Trick Week
The total number of stars in the Universe is larger than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth.
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Beach Earth Grain Number Planet Sand Science Stars Universe
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.
CARL SAGAN

Argument Authority Expert Future Mistake Past Weight
The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life.
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Earth Harbor Life

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