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.
CARL SAGANThe cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgement, the manner in which information is coordinated and used.
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Don’t judge everyone else by your own limited experience.
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
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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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The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.
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Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
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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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Writing is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
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If I finish a book a week, I will read only a few thousand books in my lifetime, about a tenth of a percent of the contents of the greatest libraries of our time. The trick is to know which books to read.
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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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Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
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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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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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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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