Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
CARL SAGANThe cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it.
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The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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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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Not all birds can fly. What separates the flyers from the walkers is the ability to take off.
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The very act of understanding is a celebration of joining, merging, even if on a very modest scale, with the magnificence of the Cosmos.
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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.
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The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
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The visions we offer our children shape the future.
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Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
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Nature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
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The significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage.
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One of the greatest gifts adults can give – to their offspring and to their society – is to read to children.
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We live in a vast and awesome universe in which, daily, suns are made and worlds destroyed, where humanity clings to an obscure clod of rock.
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