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Carl Sagan Quote - The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it.

The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it.

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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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Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
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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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The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it.
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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
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Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
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The visions we offer our children shape the future.
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Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
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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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There are as many atoms in one molecule of DNA as there are stars in a typical galaxy.
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The universe is a pretty big place. If it’s just us, seems like an awful waste of space.
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