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Better Quotes by Carl Sagan
- If some good evidence for life after death were announced, I'd be eager to examine it; but it would have to be real scientific data,…
- [N]o scientist likes to be criticized. ... But you don't reply to critics: "Wait a minute, wait a minute; this is a really good idea.…
- How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, “This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger…
- Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
- There is perhaps no better a demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world.
- Better by far to embrace the hard truth than a reassuring fable. If we crave some cosmic purpose, then let us find ourselves a worthy…
- Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy. And in the final tolling it often turns out that the facts are more comforting…
- It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
- How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, “This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger…
- The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
- Present global culture is a kind of arrogant newcomer. It arrives on the planetary stage following four and a half billion years of other acts,…
- We all have a thirst for wonder. It's a deeply human quality. Science and religion are both bound up with it. What I'm saying is,…
- The significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage. We are the custodians of life's…
- Arguments from authority carry little weight – authorities have made mistakes in the past. They will do so again in the future. Perhaps a better…
- There are huge advertising budgets only when there's no difference between the products. If the products really were different, people would buy the one that's…
- Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
- For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
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- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip. — Aristophanes
- If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. — Aristotle
- It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator… — Aristotle
- Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I think when you're 10 years old, it's too much to see something with the threat of death in every episode. Kids… — J. J. Abrams
- Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western people have… — Karen Armstrong
- The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better. — Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
- Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge,… — Isaac Asimov
- I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime I am… — John James Audubon
- God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist. — Saint Augustine
- Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for… — Marcus Aurelius