The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it.
CARL SAGANThe cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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What an astonishing thing a book is.
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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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Not all birds can fly. What separates the flyers from the walkers is the ability to take off.
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All over the world there are enormous numbers of smart, even gifted, people who harbor a passion for science.
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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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Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).
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Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
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Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
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There are as many atoms in one molecule of DNA as there are stars in a typical galaxy.
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If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go.
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People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.
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A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called “leaves”) imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles.
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Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
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Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
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One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.
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