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Carl Sagan Quote - Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.

Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.

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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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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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Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.
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The very act of understanding is a celebration of joining, merging, even if on a very modest scale, with the magnificence of the Cosmos.
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The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life.
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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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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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If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.
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A galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars – billions upon billions of stars. Every star may be a sun to someone.
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The visions we offer our children shape the future.
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You have to know the past to understand the present.
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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
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Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgement, the manner in which information is coordinated and used.
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If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go.
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I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
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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 universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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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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All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.
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