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Carl Sagan Quote - The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.

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

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Don’t judge everyone else by your own limited experience.
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Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
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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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We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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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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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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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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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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What an astonishing thing a book is.
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Arguments from authority carry little weight, authorities have made mistakes in the past. They will do so again in the future. Perhaps a better way to say it is that in science there are no authorities; at most, there are experts.
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The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life.
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I’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
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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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The universe is a pretty big place. If it’s just us, seems like an awful waste of space.
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Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
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We are all stardust.
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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
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People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.
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I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
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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 brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
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Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.
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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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Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
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One of the great commandments of science is: Mistrust arguments from authority.
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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
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