The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.
CARL SAGANAll over the world there are enormous numbers of smart, even gifted, people who harbor a passion for science.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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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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The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it.
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We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.
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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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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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People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
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The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.
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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
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Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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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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Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.
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