Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
CARL SAGANWhere we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
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I don’t want to believe. I want to know.
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What an astonishing thing a book is.
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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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You are worth about 3 dollars worth in chemicals.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
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Don’t judge everyone else by your own limited experience.
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The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
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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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Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.
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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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If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go.
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The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it.
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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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Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you’re in love, you want to tell the world.
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