Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
CARL SAGANOther things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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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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An atheist is someone who is certain that God does not exist, someone who has compelling evidence against the existence of God.
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We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.
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The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.
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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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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.
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There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.
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We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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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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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion.
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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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I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
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People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.
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The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.
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