Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
CARL SAGANKnowing 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.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.
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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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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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We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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We are all stardust.
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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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Science is a way to not fool ourselves.
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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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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).
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We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
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Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
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The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.
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The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life.
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