Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
CARL SAGANArguments from authority carry little weight, authorities have made mistakes in the past. They will do so again in the future. Perhaps a better way to say it is that in science there are no authorities; at most, there are experts.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
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Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
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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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For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
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The very act of understanding is a celebration of joining, merging, even if on a very modest scale, with the magnificence of the Cosmos.
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There are as many atoms in one molecule of DNA as there are stars in a typical galaxy.
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If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go.
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Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.
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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
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Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).
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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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Arguments from authority carry little weight, authorities have made mistakes in the past. They will do so again in the future. Perhaps a better way to say it is that in science there are no authorities; at most, there are experts.
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Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.
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I’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
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