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Carl Sagan Quote - People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.

People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.

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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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The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life.
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I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
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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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Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.
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Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).
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What an astonishing thing a book is.
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Astonish Book One Liner
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
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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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desperatel Determination Preference Prejudice Puzzle True Truth Want Work
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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Cosmic Enough Explore Investigation Nature Ocean Ready Sail Shore Stars Wander
Nature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
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Build Death Nature Sentimental Truth
Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you’re in love, you want to tell the world.
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We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is 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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Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
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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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Assemble Book Leaf Print Tree

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