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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Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
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To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.
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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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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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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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Your god is too small for my universe.
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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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Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.
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For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
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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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Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
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I’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
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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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Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
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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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The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it.
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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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Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
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We can’t help it. Life looks for life.
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Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
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We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.
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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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Don’t judge everyone else by your own limited experience.
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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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Science is an attempt, largely successful, to understand the world, to get a grip on things, to get hold of ourselves, to steer a safe course.
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You are worth about 3 dollars worth in chemicals.
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