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Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.

Carl Sagan

You are worth about 3 dollars worth in chemicals.
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Chemical Science Worth
The significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage.
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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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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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Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
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Science is an attempt, largely successful, to understand the world, to get a grip on things, to get hold of ourselves, to steer a safe course.
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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 live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life.
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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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Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
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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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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 nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.
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To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.
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