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Carl Sagan Quote - We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.

We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.

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I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
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Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
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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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Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
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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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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.
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We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
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The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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I’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
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Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
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You have to know the past to understand the present.
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Writing is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
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What an astonishing thing a book is.
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