Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.
CARL SAGANScience is a way to not fool ourselves.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
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The visions we offer our children shape the future.
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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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The significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage.
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Don’t judge everyone else by your own limited experience.
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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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For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
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We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
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There are as many atoms in one molecule of DNA as there are stars in a typical galaxy.
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You are worth about 3 dollars worth in chemicals.
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People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.
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We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good.
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The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it.
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Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
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