Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
CARL SAGANThe beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
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One 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.
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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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The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
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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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One of the great commandments of science is: Mistrust arguments from authority.
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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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Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.
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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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Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
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Science is a way to not fool ourselves.
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Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
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If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go.
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I don’t want to believe. I want to know.
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The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.
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