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Carl Sagan Quote - I don’t want to believe. I want to know.

I don’t want to believe. I want to know.

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One of the great commandments of science is: Mistrust arguments from authority.
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If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.
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Writing is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
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Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
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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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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
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Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
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Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
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One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.
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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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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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People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture and our concern for the future can all be tested by how well we support our libraries.
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What an astonishing thing a book is.
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