Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
CARL SAGANOne of the great commandments of science is: Mistrust arguments from authority.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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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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The universe is a pretty big place. If it’s just us, seems like an awful waste of space.
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Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
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For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
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Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
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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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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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We are all stardust.
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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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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.
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Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
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I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
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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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