I’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
CARL SAGANThe cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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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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If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
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One of the great commandments of science is: Mistrust arguments from authority.
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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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The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life.
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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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Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
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Our ancestors lived out of doors. They were as familiar with the night sky as most of us are with our favorite television programs.
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We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good.
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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We can’t help it. Life looks for life.
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Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
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The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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The universe is a pretty big place. If it’s just us, seems like an awful waste of space.
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And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
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