People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.
CARL SAGANIf 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.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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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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We are all stardust.
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Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
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Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
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I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
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Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean. We are ready at last to set sail for the stars.
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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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All over the world there are enormous numbers of smart, even gifted, people who harbor a passion for science.
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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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I’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
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Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).
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Writing is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
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The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it.
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