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.
CARL SAGANSomewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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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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Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
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The total number of stars in the Universe is larger than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth.
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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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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There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.
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And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
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If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.
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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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If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go.
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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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Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
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People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.
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Our ancestors lived out of doors. They were as familiar with the night sky as most of us are with our favorite television programs.
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I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves.
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