I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves.
CARL SAGANWe are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go.
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Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
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Every star may be a sun to someone.
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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 notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
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One of the greatest gifts adults can give – to their offspring and to their society – is to read to children.
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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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We are all stardust.
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Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
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Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
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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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