When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion.
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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One of the great commandments of science is: Mistrust arguments from authority.
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Don’t judge everyone else by your own limited experience.
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Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
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Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
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We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
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If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go.
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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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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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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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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.
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Every star may be a sun to someone.
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The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
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Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
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