People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.
CARL SAGANScience is an attempt, largely successful, to understand the world, to get a grip on things, to get hold of ourselves, to steer a safe course.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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The visions we offer our children shape the future.
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The significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage.
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And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
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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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The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
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Every star may be a sun to someone.
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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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We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.
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Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
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Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about 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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We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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We are all stardust.
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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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Not all birds can fly. What separates the flyers from the walkers is the ability to take off.
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