If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.


Carl Sagan

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Cutting off fundamental, curiosity-driven science is like eating the seed corn. We may have a little...
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Let's see if I got this right," she would say to herself. "I've taken an inert gas that's in the air...
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Claims that cannot be tested, assertions immune to disproof are veridically worthless, whatever valu...
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I promise to question everything my leaders tell me. I promise to use my critical faculties. I promi...
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But, Jefferson worried that the people - and the argument goes back to Thucydides and Aristotle - ar...
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Nevertheless, (Jefferson) believed that the habit of skepticism is an essential prerequisite for res...
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At the heart of science is an essential balance between two seemingly contradictory attitudes--an op...
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An atheist is someone who is certain that God doesn't exist, someone who has compelling evidence aga...
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Many religions have attempted to make statues of their gods very large, and the idea, I suppose, is ...
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Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
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It seems to me what is called for is an exquisite balance between two conflicting needs: the most sk...
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Once we lose our fear of being tiny, we find ourselves on the threshold of a vast and awesome Univer...
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To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.
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As science advances, there seems to be less and less for God to do. It's a big universe, of course, ...
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We have examined the universe in space and seen that we live on a mote of dust circling a humdrum st...
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It is said that men may not be the dreams of the god, but rather that the gods are the dreams of men...
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If we long for our planet to be important, there is something we can do about it. We make our world ...
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Every aspect of Nature reveals a deep mystery and touches our sense of wonder and awe. Those afraid ...
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Observation: I can't see a thing. Conclusion: Dinosaurs.
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We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
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Atoms are mainly empty space. Matter is composed chiefly of nothing.
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We inhabit a universe where atoms are made in the centers of stars; where each second a thousand sun...
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You are worth about 3 dollars worth in chemicals.
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Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soi...
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The surface of the Earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean. On this shore, we've learned most of what...
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One glance at (a book) and you hear the voice of another person - perhaps someone dead for thousands...
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Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
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The size and age of the Cosmos are beyond ordinary human understanding. Lost somewhere between immen...
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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 ...
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Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered lo...
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The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence.
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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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We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
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