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Carl Sagan Quote - Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.

Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.

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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
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Argument Cure Ideas Suppression
We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
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Butterfly Forever Human Nature Thinking
What an astonishing thing a book is.
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Astonish Book One Liner
To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.
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Break Up Couple Deep Forever Heart Leaving Live Love
Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
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Distance Greatness Ignorance Mistake Perspective
Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
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Exception Exrinction Rule Survival
People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.
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Believe Deep People Reason Stupidity
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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Alone Coordinate Deal Greatness Information Intelligence Judgement Knowledge Manner Smart Used
We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
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Cosmic Deep Science
The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.
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Exclusive Mutual Notion Science Spiritual
The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what’s true.
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desperatel Determination Preference Prejudice Puzzle True Truth Want Work
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
CARL SAGAN

Dependent Exquisite Live Science Society Technology
Every star may be a sun to someone.
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Deep One Liner Stars Sun
If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
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Deserve Destroy Justice Science Truth
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.
CARL SAGAN

Book Content Finish Library Lifetime Percent Reading Time Trick Week
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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Body Knowledge Science Thinking
Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you’re in love, you want to tell the world.
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Explanation Love Peverse Science Want World
The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
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Ambition Harmony Human Perfection Requirement Universe
Nature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
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Build Death Nature Sentimental Truth
The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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Hostile Indifference Universe
Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.
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Disturb Glory Stupidity
When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion.
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Distant Fusion Look Night Nuclear Science Shine Stars
We are all stardust.
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One Liner Stardust
For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
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Creature Love Vast
You have to know the past to understand the present.
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Deep Inspirational One Liner Past Present Understand
The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life.
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Earth Harbor Life
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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Assume Come Consideration Danger Extreme Ourselves Outside Problem Solution

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