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Carl Sagan Quote - 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.

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.

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One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.
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Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
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I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
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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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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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Nature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
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I don’t want to believe. I want to know.
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Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
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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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The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
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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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There are as many atoms in one molecule of DNA as there are stars in a typical galaxy.
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Your god is too small for my universe.
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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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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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If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.
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