Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
CARL SAGANThe cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.
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I don’t want to believe. I want to know.
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We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
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One of the great commandments of science is: Mistrust arguments from authority.
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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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Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
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Science is a way to not fool ourselves.
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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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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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People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.
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The total number of stars in the Universe is larger than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth.
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The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it.
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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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Exploration 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.
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