One of the great commandments of science is: Mistrust arguments from authority.
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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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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You are worth about 3 dollars worth in chemicals.
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I’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
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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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People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.
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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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Perhaps the depth of love can be calibrated by the number of different selves that are actively involved in a given relationship.
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Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
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The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
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For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.
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Don’t judge everyone else by your own limited experience.
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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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What an astonishing thing a book is.
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We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
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Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
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You have to know the past to understand the present.
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The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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Arguments from authority carry little weight, authorities have made mistakes in the past. They will do so again in the future. Perhaps a better way to say it is that in science there are no authorities; at most, there are experts.
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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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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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The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life.
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The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
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