Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
CARL SAGANOne 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.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
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Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.
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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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The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it.
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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 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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Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
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The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.
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People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.
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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.
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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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Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
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The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
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One of the great commandments of science is: Mistrust arguments from authority.
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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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