Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
CARL SAGANThe significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
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Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
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People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.
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The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.
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The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life.
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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Perhaps the depth of love can be calibrated by the number of different selves that are actively involved in a given relationship.
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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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Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.
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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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A galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars – billions upon billions of stars. Every star may be a sun to someone.
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Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
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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.
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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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I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
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