Science is a way to not fool ourselves.
CARL SAGANExploration 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.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Every kid starts out as a natural-born scientist, and then we beat it out of them. A few trickle through the system with their wonder and enthusiasm for science intact.
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We are all stardust.
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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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Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you’re in love, you want to tell the world.
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For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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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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The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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Writing is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
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Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.
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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
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Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.
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Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
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People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.
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