Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.
CARL SAGANOther things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
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We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers.
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We are all stardust.
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Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
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Nature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
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Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
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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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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
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Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
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If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
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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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All over the world there are enormous numbers of smart, even gifted, people who harbor a passion for science.
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Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
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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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