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Carl Sagan Quote - Science is a way to not fool ourselves.

Science is a way to not fool 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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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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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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Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.
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The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.
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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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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
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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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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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Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).
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One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.
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Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
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Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
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Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
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Your god is too small for my universe.
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Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you’re in love, you want to tell the world.
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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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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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We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
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Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
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What an astonishing thing a book is.
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We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
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A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called “leaves”) imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles.
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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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Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
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When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion.
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And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
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