One of the great commandments of science is: Mistrust arguments from authority.
CARL SAGANScience is a way to not fool ourselves.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
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And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
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Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.
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The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.
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Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.
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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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Your god is too small for my universe.
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The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.
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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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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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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
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Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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We all have a thirst for wonder. It’s a deeply human quality. Science and religion are both bound up with it.
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Science is an attempt, largely successful, to understand the world, to get a grip on things, to get hold of ourselves, to steer a safe course.
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