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Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgement, the manner in which information is coordinated and used.

Carl Sagan

For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
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Assure Delusion Grasp Persistence Satisfaction Universe
We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers.
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Courage Depth Significance World
Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.
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Avoid Cause Human Ignorance Misery Ourselves Particular Stupidity
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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Book Content Finish Library Lifetime Percent Reading Time Trick Week
An atheist is someone who is certain that God does not exist, someone who has compelling evidence against the existence of God.
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Against Atheist Certain Evidence Existence God
The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
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Argument Cure Ideas Suppression
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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Beat Born Enthusiam Kids Natural Science Scientist Start System Wonder
When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion.
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Distant Fusion Look Night Nuclear Science Shine Stars
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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desperatel Determination Preference Prejudice Puzzle True Truth Want Work
Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
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Across Sea Space Stars Sun
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
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Apple Invention Science Scratch Universe
Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
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Equality Inspirational Smart Stupidity
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
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Astronomy Incredible Inspirational Science
A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called “leaves”) imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles.
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Assemble Book Leaf Print Tree
Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you’re in love, you want to tell the world.
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Explanation Love Peverse Science Want World
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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Claim Evidence Extraordinary One Liner Requirement Science

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