Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
CARL SAGANWe 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.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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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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I’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
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We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good.
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If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go.
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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
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I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves.
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The visions we offer our children shape the future.
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For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
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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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The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
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The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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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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We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
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I don’t want to believe. I want to know.
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