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.
CARL SAGANScience is a way to not fool ourselves.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
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All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.
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You are worth about 3 dollars worth in chemicals.
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I’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
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Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
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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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The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what’s true.
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For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
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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 a way for the cosmos to know itself.
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We can’t help it. Life looks for life.
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Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
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We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
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An atheist is someone who is certain that God does not exist, someone who has compelling evidence against the existence of God.
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The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life.
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