Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.
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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Writing is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
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Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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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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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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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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We live in a vast and awesome universe in which, daily, suns are made and worlds destroyed, where humanity clings to an obscure clod of rock.
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Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
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I’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
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We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.
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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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Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
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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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We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.
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The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it.
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People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.
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The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
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Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
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Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
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What an astonishing thing a book is.
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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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There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.
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Nature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
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I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
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The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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If I finish a book a week, I will read only a few thousand books in my lifetime, about a tenth of a percent of the contents of the greatest libraries of our time. The trick is to know which books to read.
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