The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
CARL SAGANAvoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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What an astonishing thing a book is.
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We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers.
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Don’t judge everyone else by your own limited experience.
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Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
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All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.
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We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
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The significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage.
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The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.
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Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
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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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Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.
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We all have a thirst for wonder. It’s a deeply human quality. Science and religion are both bound up with it.
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For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
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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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The total number of stars in the Universe is larger than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth.
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