Our ancestors lived out of doors. They were as familiar with the night sky as most of us are with our favorite television programs.
CARL SAGANThe 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.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
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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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I don’t want to believe. I want to know.
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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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Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
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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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Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
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The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it.
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Every star may be a sun to someone.
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We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
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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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We are all stardust.
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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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