Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
CARL SAGANBooks permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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What an astonishing thing a book is.
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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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Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
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If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.
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Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you’re in love, you want to tell the world.
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One of the greatest gifts adults can give – to their offspring and to their society – is to read to children.
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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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Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.
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I don’t want to believe. I want to know.
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We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
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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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People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.
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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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One of the great commandments of science is: Mistrust arguments from authority.
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I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
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