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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.

Carl Sagan

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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Argument Authority Expert Future Mistake Past Weight
All over the world there are enormous numbers of smart, even gifted, people who harbor a passion for science.
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Enormous Gift Habour Number Passion People Science Smart World
Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
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Exception Exrinction Rule Survival
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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Book Content Finish Library Lifetime Percent Reading Time Trick Week
We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers.
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Courage Depth Significance World
Not all birds can fly. What separates the flyers from the walkers is the ability to take off.
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Ability Bird Fly Motivational Separate Walk Work Hard
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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Alone Coordinate Deal Greatness Information Intelligence Judgement Knowledge Manner Smart Used
We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
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Cosmic Deep Science
Don’t judge everyone else by your own limited experience.
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Experience Judgement Life Limitation
The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it.
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Anticipation Anxiety Future Pay Price
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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Assemble Book Leaf Print Tree
The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
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Argument Cure Ideas Suppression
We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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Dust Live Sun Suspend
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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Act Celebration Cosmic Magnificant Merge Modest Scale Understand
I’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
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Atheist Conviction Courage
Your god is too small for my universe.
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Atheist God Universe

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