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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Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
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Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.
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The visions we offer our children shape the future.
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I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture and our concern for the future can all be tested by how well we support our libraries.
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Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you’re in love, you want to tell the world.
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Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.
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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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What an astonishing thing a book is.
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We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.
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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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We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers.
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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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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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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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