The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
CARL SAGANWe live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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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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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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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 are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.
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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 of the greatest gifts adults can give – to their offspring and to their society – is to read to children.
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Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
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We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
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We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
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We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.
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We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
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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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Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
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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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