The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
CARL SAGANI would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
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Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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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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We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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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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Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
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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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Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).
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The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
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You are worth about 3 dollars worth in chemicals.
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Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
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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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I’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
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Don’t judge everyone else by your own limited experience.
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