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Carl Sagan Quote - Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.

Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.

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If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.
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Nature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
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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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Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgement, the manner in which information is coordinated and used.
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Our ancestors lived out of doors. They were as familiar with the night sky as most of us are with our favorite television programs.
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Ancestor Door Family Favourite Live Night Program Sky Television
Your god is too small for my universe.
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I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
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Information Science Suggestion Worship
We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
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Butterfly Forever Human Nature Thinking
When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion.
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Distant Fusion Look Night Nuclear Science Shine Stars
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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Claim Evidence Extraordinary One Liner Requirement Science
I’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
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Atheist Conviction Courage
Writing is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
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Blind Citizen Distant Greatness Human Invention People Togetherness Writing
All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.
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Civilization Extinct Science Space
We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers.
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Courage Depth Significance World
The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.
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The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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We can’t help it. Life looks for life.
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Help Life Look Science
Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).
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Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.
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Advance Agriculture History Live Lost Medicine Save Science Vast War
Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
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Ecstasy Kind One Liner Understand
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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desperatel Determination Preference Prejudice Puzzle True Truth Want Work
People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.
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Believe Deep People Reason Stupidity
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
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Apple Invention Science Scratch Universe
The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
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Brain Feeling Goodness Joy Muscle Understand
We all have a thirst for wonder. It’s a deeply human quality. Science and religion are both bound up with it.
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Bound Human Quality Religion Science Thirist Wonder
The total number of stars in the Universe is larger than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth.
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Every star may be a sun to someone.
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Deep One Liner Stars Sun

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