Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
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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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
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You are worth about 3 dollars worth in chemicals.
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Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.
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The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
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We can’t help it. Life looks for life.
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The universe is a pretty big place. If it’s just us, seems like an awful waste of space.
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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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Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
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The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life.
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The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
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Not all birds can fly. What separates the flyers from the walkers is the ability to take off.
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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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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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