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Carl Sagan Quote - The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.

The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.

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The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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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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Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
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I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture and our concern for the future can all be tested by how well we support our libraries.
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I don’t want to believe. I want to know.
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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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Every kid starts out as a natural-born scientist, and then we beat it out of them. A few trickle through the system with their wonder and enthusiasm for science intact.
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Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.
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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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The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.
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Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
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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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The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what’s true.
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Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
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We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
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Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.
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Nature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
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Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
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If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.
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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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We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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We are all stardust.
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We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good.
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Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
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For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
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