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Comes Quotes by Carl Sagan
- In many cultures it is customary to answer that God created the universe out of nothing. But this is mere temporizing. If we wish courageously…
- 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…
- All of us cherish our beliefs. They are, to a degree, self-defining. When someone comes along who challenges our belief system as insufficiently well-based -…
- If we are not able to ask skeptical questions, to interrogate those who tell us that something is true, to be skeptical of those in…
- Has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science? . . . No other human institution comes close.
- 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…
- I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely…
- Finding the occasional straw of truth awash in a great ocean of confusion and bamboozle requires intelligence, vigilance, dedication, and courage. But if we don't…
- If we can't think for ourselves, if we're unwilling to question authority, then we're just putty in the hands of those in power. But if…
- In the way that scepticism is sometimes applied to issues of public concern, there is a tendency to belittle, to condescend, to ignore the fact…
- Think of how many religions attempt to validate themselves with prophecy. Think of how many people rely on these prophecies, however vague, however unfulfilled, to…
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- Always remember that the future comes one day at a time. — Dean Acheson
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