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Carl Sagan Quote - One of the great commandments of science is: Mistrust arguments from authority.

One of the great commandments of science is: Mistrust arguments from authority.

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The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it.
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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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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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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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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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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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