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If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.

Carl Sagan

If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.
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Accumulate Destroy Ourselves Power Sure Wisdom
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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desperatel Determination Preference Prejudice Puzzle True Truth Want Work
The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
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Argument Cure Ideas Suppression
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
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Dependent Exquisite Live Science Society Technology
Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.
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Disturb Glory Stupidity
Science is an attempt, largely successful, to understand the world, to get a grip on things, to get hold of ourselves, to steer a safe course.
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Attempt Course Ourselves Safe Science Success Understand World
Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you’re in love, you want to tell the world.
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Explanation Love Peverse Science Want World
We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
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Butterfly Forever Human Nature Thinking
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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Argument Authority Expert Future Mistake Past Weight
We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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Dust Live Sun Suspend
When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion.
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Distant Fusion Look Night Nuclear Science Shine Stars
We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
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Destiny Hands Science Stars Stuff
And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
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Biology Cell Science
Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
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Equality Inspirational Smart Stupidity
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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Atom Beauty Cosmic Couple Live Marriage Togetherness
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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Compose Dust Galaxy Gas Stars Sun

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