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.
CARL SAGANThe notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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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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The very act of understanding is a celebration of joining, merging, even if on a very modest scale, with the magnificence of the Cosmos.
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The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life.
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The visions we offer our children shape the future.
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When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion.
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Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).
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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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You have to know the past to understand the present.
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Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
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People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.
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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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Writing is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
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There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.
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Perhaps the depth of love can be calibrated by the number of different selves that are actively involved in a given relationship.
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What an astonishing thing a book is.
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