Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
CARL SAGANThere are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
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Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you’re in love, you want to tell the world.
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What an astonishing thing a book is.
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Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).
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Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
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We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
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You have to know the past to understand the present.
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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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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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I’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
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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.
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There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.
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One of the great commandments of science is: Mistrust arguments from authority.
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Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.
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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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