We can’t help it. Life looks for life.
CARL SAGANThose at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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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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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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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
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What an astonishing thing a book is.
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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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We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers.
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Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
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People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.
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Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
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To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.
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Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
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The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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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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