I’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
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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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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All over the world there are enormous numbers of smart, even gifted, people who harbor a passion for science.
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I don’t want to believe. I want to know.
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Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
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The very act of understanding is a celebration of joining, merging, even if on a very modest scale, with the magnificence of the Cosmos.
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Your god is too small for my universe.
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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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Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.
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Arguments from authority carry little weight, authorities have made mistakes in the past. They will do so again in the future. Perhaps a better way to say it is that in science there are no authorities; at most, there are experts.
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We are all stardust.
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The visions we offer our children shape the future.
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If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go.
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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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Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
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