The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
CARL SAGANOur ancestors lived out of doors. They were as familiar with the night sky as most of us are with our favorite television programs.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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Nature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
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Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
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Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
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We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
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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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We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
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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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Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
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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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Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.
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One of the great commandments of science is: Mistrust arguments from authority.
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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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We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers.
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