Science is a way to not fool ourselves.
CARL SAGANIf it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
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Nature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
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Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.
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Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.
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Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
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We live in a vast and awesome universe in which, daily, suns are made and worlds destroyed, where humanity clings to an obscure clod of rock.
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We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers.
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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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If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
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The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
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We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.
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Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
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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 only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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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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