I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
CARL SAGANThe universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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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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Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).
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We all have a thirst for wonder. It’s a deeply human quality. Science and religion are both bound up with it.
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We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
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Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
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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 cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
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Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
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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 live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
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The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
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Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
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