Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
CARL SAGANI would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
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Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
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Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.
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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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When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion.
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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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The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
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Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).
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Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
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We can’t help it. Life looks for life.
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We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
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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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If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
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