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

Carl Sagan

If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
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Deserve Destroy Justice Science Truth
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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Apple Blood Calcium DNA Interior Nitrogen Stars Teeth
We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
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Cosmic Deep Science
And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
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Biology Cell Science
What an astonishing thing a book is.
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Astonish Book One Liner
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
Perhaps the depth of love can be calibrated by the number of different selves that are actively involved in a given relationship.
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Depth Different Giving Involvement Love Number Perhaps Relationship
Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
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Exception Exrinction Rule Survival
All over the world there are enormous numbers of smart, even gifted, people who harbor a passion for science.
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Enormous Gift Habour Number Passion People Science Smart World
An atheist is someone who is certain that God does not exist, someone who has compelling evidence against the existence of God.
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Against Atheist Certain Evidence Existence God
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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Atom Beauty Cosmic Couple Live Marriage Togetherness
A galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars – billions upon billions of stars. Every star may be a sun to someone.
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Compose Dust Galaxy Gas Stars Sun
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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desperatel Determination Preference Prejudice Puzzle True Truth Want Work
Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you’re in love, you want to tell the world.
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Explanation Love Peverse Science Want World
Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
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Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
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Elegant Imagination Nature Stuble

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