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• Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.

  Carl Sagan

  Nature, Mass Extinction, Exception To The Rule

  Carl Sagan (2006). “The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God”, p.76, Penguin

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• History is full of people who out of fear, or ignorance, or lust for power has destroyed knowledge of immeasurable value which truly belongs to us all. We must not let it happen again.

  Carl Sagan

  Truth, Ignorance, People

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• The Bill of Rights decoupled religion from the state, in part because so many religions were steeped in an absolutist frame of mind - each convinced that it alone had a monopoly on the truth and therefore eager for the state to impose this truth on others.

  Carl Sagan

  Rights, Mind, Church

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.552, Ballantine Books

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• You could just as well say that an agnostic is a deeply religious person with at least a rudimentary knowledge of human fallibility.

  Carl Sagan

  Religious, Agnostic, Wells

  Carl Sagan (1997). “Contact”, p.169, Simon and Schuster

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• The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.

  Carl Sagan

  Science, Ideas, Argument

  Carl Sagan (2011). “The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.429, Ballantine Books

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• Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.

  Carl Sagan

  God, Spiritual, Philosophy

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.54, Ballantine Books

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• Wisdom lies in understanding our limitations.

  Carl Sagan

  Lying, Understanding, Limitation

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.43, Ballantine Books

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• We should be teaching our children the scientific method and the reasons for a Bill of Rights. With it comes a certain decency, humility and community spirit.

  Carl Sagan

  Atheist, Children, Teaching

  Carl Sagan (2011). “The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.434, Ballantine Books

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• Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.

  Carl Sagan

  Love, Inspirational, Perspective

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.371, Ballantine Books

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• The simplest thought, like the concept of the number one, has an elaborate logical underpinning.

  Carl Sagan

  Numbers, Logical, Simplest

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• We are, each of us, a multitude. Within us is a little universe.

  Carl Sagan

  Pain, Littles, Injury

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• If you look at Earth from space you see a dot, that's here. That's home. That's us. It underscores the responsibility to deal more kindly and compassionately with one another and to preserve and cherish that pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.

  Carl Sagan

  Responsibility, Home, Blue

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• we make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers

  Carl Sagan

  Patience, Our World, Depth

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.217, Ballantine Books

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• The Big Bang is our modern scientific creation myth. It comes from the same human need to solve the cosmological riddle [Where did the universe come from?]

  Carl Sagan

  Bangs, Needs, Creation

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• Cosmos is a Greek word for the order of the universe. It is, in a way, the opposite of Chaos. It implies the deep interconnectedness of all things. It conveys awe for the intricate and subtle way in which the universe is put together.

  Carl Sagan

  Order, Opposites, Greek

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.37, Ballantine Books

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• Valid criticism does you a favor.

  Carl Sagan

  Criticism, Doe, Favors

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.57, Ballantine Books

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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.

  Carl Sagan

  Inspirational, Motivational, Atheist

  "President Obama Quotes Carl Sagan at Rutgers: 'Embrace What is True Rather Than What Feels Good'" by Hemant Mehta, www.patheos.com. May 15, 2016.

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• Who are we, if not measured by our impact on others?

  Carl Sagan

  Impact, Ifs

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• It is the responsibility of scientists never to suppress knowledge, no matter how awkward that knowledge is, no matter how it may bother those in power; we are not smart enough to decide which pieces of knowledge are permissible, and which are not.

  Carl Sagan

  Smart, Knowledge, Responsibility

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• We are the only species on the planet, so far as we know, to have invented a communal memory stored neither in our genes nor in our brains. The warehouse of this memory is called the library

  Carl Sagan

  Memories, Brain, Library

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.305, Ballantine Books

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• One of the great commandments of science is: 'Mistrust arguments from authority.'

  Carl Sagan

  Argument, Authority, Primates

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.52, Ballantine Books

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• The Hindu religion is the only one of the world’s great faiths dedicated to the idea that the Cosmos itself undergoes an immense, indeed an infinite, number of deaths and rebirths. It is the only religion in which the time scales correspond, no doubt by accident, to those of modern scientific cosmology. Its cycles run from our ordinary day and night to a day and night of Brahma, 8.64 billion years long, longer than the age of the Earth or the Sun and about half the time since the Big Bang.

  Carl Sagan

  Running, Night, Ideas

  "Cosmos". Book by Carl Sagan, 1980.

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• If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go

  Carl Sagan

  Earth, Ruins, Ifs

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• Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever the universe has to teach us, or somebody who says everything in this book must be considered the literal truth and never mind the fallibility of all the human beings involved?

  Carl Sagan

  Inspirational, Life, Truth

  Carl Sagan, Tom Head (2006). “Conversations with Carl Sagan”, p.145, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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  The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.

  Carl Sagan

  Wisdom, Understanding, Brain

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