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Carl Sagan Quote - Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

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Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
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Distance Greatness Ignorance Mistake Perspective
Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
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Ecstasy Kind One Liner Understand
I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
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Information Science Suggestion Worship
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.
CARL SAGAN

Book Content Finish Library Lifetime Percent Reading Time Trick Week
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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Atheist Courage Depth Embrace Goodness Judgement Progress Science Willing
People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.
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Believe Deep People Reason Stupidity
We can’t help it. Life looks for life.
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Help Life Look Science
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.
CARL SAGAN

Book Content Finish Library Lifetime Percent Reading Time Trick Week
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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Book Dead Glance Hear Perhaps Reading Time Voice Voyage
There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.
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Delicate Forbidden Matter Scare Science Sensitive Truth
Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.
CARL SAGAN

Avoid Cause Human Ignorance Misery Ourselves Particular Stupidity
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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Bound Human Quality Religion Science Thirist Wonder
We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers.
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Courage Depth Significance World
Writing is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
CARL SAGAN

Blind Citizen Distant Greatness Human Invention People Togetherness Writing
For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
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Creature Love Vast
The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
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Brain Feeling Goodness Joy Muscle Understand

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