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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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Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.
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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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The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
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We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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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 total number of stars in the Universe is larger than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth.
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Our ancestors lived out of doors. They were as familiar with the night sky as most of us are with our favorite television programs.
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Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
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The visions we offer our children shape the future.
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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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You are worth about 3 dollars worth in chemicals.
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Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
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Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.
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Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.
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Perhaps the depth of love can be calibrated by the number of different selves that are actively involved in a given relationship.
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Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
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If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
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We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
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We can’t help it. Life looks for life.
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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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All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.
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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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Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
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Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
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What an astonishing thing a book is.
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