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True Quotes by Carl Sagan
- The fact that someone says something doesn't mean it's true. Doesn't mean they're lying, but it doesn't mean it's true.
- Science and mathematics [are] much more compelling and exciting than the doctrines of pseudoscience, whose practitioners were condemned as early as the fifth century B.C.…
- [Science] is not perfect. It can be misused. It is only a tool. But it is by far the best tool we have, self-correcting, ongoing,…
- 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…
- We are, in a way, temporary ambulatory repositories for our nucleic acids. This does not deny our humanity; it does not prevent us from pursuing…
- The method of science is tried and true. It is not perfect, it's just the best we have. And to abandon it, with its skeptical…
- I find science so much more fascinating than science fiction. It also has the advantage of being true.
- In college, in the early 1950s, I began to learn a little about how science works, the secrets of its great success, how rigorous the…
- I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time ... when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very…
- The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may…
- 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…
- Science is merely an extremely powerful method of winnowing what's true from what feels good.
- I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has…
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- Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the… — Karen Armstrong
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