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Carl Sagan Quote - The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.

The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.

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We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
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Dependent Exquisite Live Science Society Technology
Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
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Awake Citizen Deserve Mind Species Understand Work World
Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
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The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what’s true.
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Don’t judge everyone else by your own limited experience.
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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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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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I’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
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Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
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We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
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If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.
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Not all birds can fly. What separates the flyers from the walkers is the ability to take off.
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The visions we offer our children shape the future.
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Nature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
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Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
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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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