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.
CARL SAGANBooks break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
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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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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
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Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
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We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
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Science is an attempt, largely successful, to understand the world, to get a grip on things, to get hold of ourselves, to steer a safe course.
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Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
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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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One of the greatest gifts adults can give – to their offspring and to their society – is to read to children.
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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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The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life.
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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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Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.
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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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The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
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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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