Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
CARL SAGANExtraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
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I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
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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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People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.
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We can’t help it. Life looks for life.
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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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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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There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.
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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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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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We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers.
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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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For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
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The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
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