There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.
CARL SAGANWhere we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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I don’t want to believe. I want to know.
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One of the great commandments of science is: Mistrust arguments from authority.
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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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Science is a way to not fool ourselves.
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Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
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The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
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Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.
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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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Your god is too small for my universe.
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If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go.
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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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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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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
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