One of the great commandments of science is: Mistrust arguments from authority.
CARL SAGANIf it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
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Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
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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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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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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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And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
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The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.
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We live in a vast and awesome universe in which, daily, suns are made and worlds destroyed, where humanity clings to an obscure clod of rock.
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The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
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Every kid starts out as a natural-born scientist, and then we beat it out of them. A few trickle through the system with their wonder and enthusiasm for science intact.
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I don’t want to believe. I want to know.
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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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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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