Science is a way to not fool ourselves.
CARL SAGANBetter the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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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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We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
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The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.
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I don’t want to believe. I want to know.
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If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go.
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Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
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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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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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And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
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We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers.
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Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
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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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A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called “leaves”) imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles.
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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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We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
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