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Carl Sagan Quote - Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.

Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.

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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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For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
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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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One of the great commandments of science is: Mistrust arguments from authority.
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