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Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.

Carl Sagan

One of the great commandments of science is: Mistrust arguments from authority.
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Argument Authority Command Greatness Science Trust
Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
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Elegant Imagination Nature Stuble
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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Cosmic Disagree Finding Galaxy Human Love Mercy Perspective Precious
Perhaps the depth of love can be calibrated by the number of different selves that are actively involved in a given relationship.
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Depth Different Giving Involvement Love Number Perhaps Relationship
Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.
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Advance Agriculture History Live Lost Medicine Save Science Vast War
We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.
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Harvest Stars Stuff Sunlight
We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers.
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Courage Depth Significance World
We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
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Butterfly Forever Human Nature Thinking
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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Atom Beauty Cosmic Couple Live Marriage Togetherness
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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Argument Authority Expert Future Mistake Past Weight
Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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Ash Rise Science Stars
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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Beat Born Enthusiam Kids Natural Science Scientist Start System Wonder
Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean. We are ready at last to set sail for the stars.
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Cosmic Enough Explore Investigation Nature Ocean Ready Sail Shore Stars Wander
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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Book Dead Glance Hear Perhaps Reading Time Voice Voyage
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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desperatel Determination Preference Prejudice Puzzle True Truth Want Work
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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Body Knowledge Science Thinking

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