Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.
CARL SAGANWhere we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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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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There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.
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The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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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 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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We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers.
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I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
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We can’t help it. Life looks for life.
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Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.
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Every star may be a sun to someone.
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Don’t judge everyone else by your own limited experience.
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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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There are as many atoms in one molecule of DNA as there are stars in a typical galaxy.
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We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
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People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.
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