I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
CARL SAGANAll civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.
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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You are worth about 3 dollars worth in chemicals.
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To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.
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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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Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
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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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And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
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The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.
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Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
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Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
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We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
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You have to know the past to understand the present.
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One of the great commandments of science is: Mistrust arguments from authority.
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One of the greatest gifts adults can give – to their offspring and to their society – is to read to children.
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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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Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
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Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.
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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.
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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 are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
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Your god is too small for my universe.
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We are all stardust.
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What an astonishing thing a book is.
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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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The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.
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The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
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