Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgement, the manner in which information is coordinated and used.
CARL SAGANAn atheist is someone who is certain that God does not exist, someone who has compelling evidence against the existence of God.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
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Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
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We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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Every star may be a sun to someone.
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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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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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The visions we offer our children shape the future.
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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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One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.
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The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
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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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The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life.
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Science is a way to not fool ourselves.
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