Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgement, the manner in which information is coordinated and used.
CARL SAGANScience is a way to not fool ourselves.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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What an astonishing thing a book is.
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The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
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We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
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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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For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
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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 price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it.
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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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Perhaps the depth of love can be calibrated by the number of different selves that are actively involved in a given relationship.
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I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves.
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Your god is too small for my universe.
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The visions we offer our children shape the future.
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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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If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go.
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