Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
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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Not all birds can fly. What separates the flyers from the walkers is the ability to take off.
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Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
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We can’t help it. Life looks for life.
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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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Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean. We are ready at last to set sail for the stars.
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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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Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
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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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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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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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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 live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
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What an astonishing thing a book is.
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We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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