Science is a way to not fool ourselves.
CARL SAGANDon’t judge everyone else by your own limited experience.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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We are all stardust.
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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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You have to know the past to understand the present.
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I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
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We live in a vast and awesome universe in which, daily, suns are made and worlds destroyed, where humanity clings to an obscure clod of rock.
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I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture and our concern for the future can all be tested by how well we support our libraries.
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The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.
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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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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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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
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Writing is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
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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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Not all birds can fly. What separates the flyers from the walkers is the ability to take off.
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