I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves.
CARL SAGANAll civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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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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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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Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).
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We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
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Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.
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The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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The universe is a pretty big place. If it’s just us, seems like an awful waste of space.
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We are all stardust.
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I’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
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The very act of understanding is a celebration of joining, merging, even if on a very modest scale, with the magnificence of the Cosmos.
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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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Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
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Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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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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If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
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