Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
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 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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The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
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Our ancestors lived out of doors. They were as familiar with the night sky as most of us are with our favorite television programs.
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I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
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We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
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The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
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Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.
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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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Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean. We are ready at last to set sail for the stars.
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Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
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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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The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
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