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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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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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Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
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I don’t want to believe. I want to know.
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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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And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
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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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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
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The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
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Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.
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We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good.
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Science is a way to not fool ourselves.
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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it.
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