The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
CARL SAGANEvery star may be a sun to someone.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it.
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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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Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
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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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Writing is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
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If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go.
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Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
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You are worth about 3 dollars worth in chemicals.
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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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When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion.
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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 only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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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 universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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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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