There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.
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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Don’t judge everyone else by your own limited experience.
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Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
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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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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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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 seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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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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Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
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All over the world there are enormous numbers of smart, even gifted, people who harbor a passion for science.
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Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
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I don’t want to believe. I want to know.
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Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
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Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
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For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
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Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.
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