One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.
CARL SAGANDon’t judge everyone else by your own limited experience.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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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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I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves.
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Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
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Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
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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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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
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Science is a way to not fool ourselves.
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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
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If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
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Our ancestors lived out of doors. They were as familiar with the night sky as most of us are with our favorite television programs.
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Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
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Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
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All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.
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