Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
CARL SAGANThe cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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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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Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
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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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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
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The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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The visions we offer our children shape the future.
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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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Not all birds can fly. What separates the flyers from the walkers is the ability to take off.
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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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Writing is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
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I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves.
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Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
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I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture and our concern for the future can all be tested by how well we support our libraries.
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We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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