People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.
CARL SAGANThe universe is a pretty big place. If it’s just us, seems like an awful waste of space.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Every kid starts out as a natural-born scientist, and then we beat it out of them. A few trickle through the system with their wonder and enthusiasm for science intact.
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The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.
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Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
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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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We live in a vast and awesome universe in which, daily, suns are made and worlds destroyed, where humanity clings to an obscure clod of rock.
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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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You have to know the past to understand the present.
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For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
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If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.
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Nature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
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Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
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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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For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
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