Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
CARL SAGANThose at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
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I’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
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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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What an astonishing thing a book is.
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The visions we offer our children shape the future.
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Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
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All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.
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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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The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
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To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.
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Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.
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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
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Science is a way to not fool ourselves.
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The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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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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