One of the great commandments of science is: Mistrust arguments from authority.
CARL SAGANWe are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture and our concern for the future can all be tested by how well we support our libraries.
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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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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
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Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
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Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
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Science is a way to not fool ourselves.
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What an astonishing thing a book is.
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And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
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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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Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
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Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
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All over the world there are enormous numbers of smart, even gifted, people who harbor a passion for science.
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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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