Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.
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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Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool 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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For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
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I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
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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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The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it.
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Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
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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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Writing is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
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Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
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Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
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Science is a way to not fool ourselves.
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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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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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