Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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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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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When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion.
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.
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For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
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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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A galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars – billions upon billions of stars. Every star may be a sun to someone.
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Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
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If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go.
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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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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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There are as many atoms in one molecule of DNA as there are stars in a typical galaxy.
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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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