Science is a way to not fool ourselves.
CARL SAGANThere are as many atoms in one molecule of DNA as there are stars in a typical galaxy.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called “leaves”) imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles.
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Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
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One of the great commandments of science is: Mistrust arguments from authority.
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If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.
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Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).
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For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
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Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
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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 total number of stars in the Universe is larger than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth.
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The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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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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All over the world there are enormous numbers of smart, even gifted, people who harbor a passion for science.
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We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
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We all have a thirst for wonder. It’s a deeply human quality. Science and religion are both bound up with it.
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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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