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 not be consonant with what we
desperately want to be true. But our preferences
do not determine what's true. -Carl Sagan
pinimg.com
work to grapple with, It may be
counterintuitive, It may contradict deeply
held prejudices.
It may not be consonant with what we
desperately want to be true. But our preferences
do not determine what's true. -Carl Sagan
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N AS WANDERERS,
B
4 A WANDERERS.
WE HAVE LINGERED LONG ENOUGH
ON HE SHORES OF THE COSMIC OCEAN.
WE VLAST TO SET
I HE STARS
SAGAM
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N AS WANDERERS,
B
4 A WANDERERS.
WE HAVE LINGERED LONG ENOUGH
ON HE SHORES OF THE COSMIC OCEAN.
WE VLAST TO SET
I HE STARS
SAGAM
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"l would love -to Believe when • I die I will live aeain,
-tKa± some $Kinkine, *eeline, rememgerine park. me will
eon$inue. Bu•-t muck as wan-t •to and despite
-the ancient and worldwide cultural -traditions assert
an P$now no±Kine -to sueees± ± kaf if is
more ± kan wish
-Carl Saean
wallpoper.com
-tKa± some $Kinkine, *eeline, rememgerine park. me will
eon$inue. Bu•-t muck as wan-t •to and despite
-the ancient and worldwide cultural -traditions assert
an P$now no±Kine -to sueees± ± kaf if is
more ± kan wish
-Carl Saean
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If you lived two or three millennia ago,
there was no shame in holding that the
Universe was made for us. It was an
appealing thesis consistent with everything
we knew; it was what the most learned
among us taught without qualification.
But we have found out much since
then. Defending such a position
today amounts to willful disregard
of the evidence, and a flight from
self-knowledge.
facebook.com/atheisunemebase
Carl Sagan
www.atheistmemebase.com
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there was no shame in holding that the
Universe was made for us. It was an
appealing thesis consistent with everything
we knew; it was what the most learned
among us taught without qualification.
But we have found out much since
then. Defending such a position
today amounts to willful disregard
of the evidence, and a flight from
self-knowledge.
facebook.com/atheisunemebase
Carl Sagan
www.atheistmemebase.com
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THE UNIVERSE
SEEMS NEITHER
BENIGN NOR
HOHLE, MERELY
INDIFFERENT.
Cart Sagan
Am rican astronomer
QuoteHÖ.com
11934-1996)
quotehd.com
SEEMS NEITHER
BENIGN NOR
HOHLE, MERELY
INDIFFERENT.
Cart Sagan
Am rican astronomer
QuoteHÖ.com
11934-1996)
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NOT
SCIENCE SEEM\S TO ME
PERVERSE. •
WHEN* YOU;'
LOVE,
YOU WANT+$TJO
TELL • THE
CARL SAGAN
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SCIENCE SEEM\S TO ME
PERVERSE. •
WHEN* YOU;'
LOVE,
YOU WANT+$TJO
TELL • THE
CARL SAGAN
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There are naive questions, tedious questions, ill-phrased questions,
questions put after inadequate self-critism. But every question is a cry
to understand the world. There is no such thing as a dumb question.
- Caral Sagan
The Demon-Haunted World
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questions put after inadequate self-critism. But every question is a cry
to understand the world. There is no such thing as a dumb question.
- Caral Sagan
The Demon-Haunted World
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For small creatures
such as we
the
vastness
is bearable only through
ove"
- Carl Sagan
tumblr.com
such as we
the
vastness
is bearable only through
ove"
- Carl Sagan
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Science is a w
than it i'
ki
much more
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than it i'
ki
much more
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'We live in a society
exquisitely dependent on
%ience and technology,
in which hardly anyone
Knows anything about
science and technology."
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exquisitely dependent on
%ience and technology,
in which hardly anyone
Knows anything about
science and technology."
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MAYBE
WE'RE ON MARS
BECAUSE WE HAVE TO BE,
BECAUSE THERE'S A DEEP
NOMADIC IMPULSE BUILT INTO
US BY THE EVOLUTIONARY
PROCESS. WE COME AFTER ALL.
FROM HUNTER GATHERERS. ANO
FOR 99.9% OF OUR TENURE ON
EARTH WE'VE BEEN WANDERERS.
AND. THE NEXT PLACE TO
WANDER TO, IS MARS. BUT
WHATEVER THE REASON YOU'RE ON
MARS IS. I'M GLAD YOU'RE
THERE •
AND 1 WISH 1 WAS WITH YOU.
- CARL SAGAN
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WE'RE ON MARS
BECAUSE WE HAVE TO BE,
BECAUSE THERE'S A DEEP
NOMADIC IMPULSE BUILT INTO
US BY THE EVOLUTIONARY
PROCESS. WE COME AFTER ALL.
FROM HUNTER GATHERERS. ANO
FOR 99.9% OF OUR TENURE ON
EARTH WE'VE BEEN WANDERERS.
AND. THE NEXT PLACE TO
WANDER TO, IS MARS. BUT
WHATEVER THE REASON YOU'RE ON
MARS IS. I'M GLAD YOU'RE
THERE •
AND 1 WISH 1 WAS WITH YOU.
- CARL SAGAN
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"It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is
than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and
reassuring.... 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 not be consonant with what we
desperately want to be true. But our preferences do
not determine what's true."
Carl
hippoquotes.com
than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and
reassuring.... 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 not be consonant with what we
desperately want to be true. But our preferences do
not determine what's true."
Carl
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We live in•a society
exquisitåly dependent on
science and technology, in
which hardly ahyone
knows anything about
science and technology.
Carl Sagan
Am rican astronomer€
QuoteHÖ.com
11934-1996)
quoteslike.com
exquisitåly dependent on
science and technology, in
which hardly ahyone
knows anything about
science and technology.
Carl Sagan
Am rican astronomer€
QuoteHÖ.com
11934-1996)
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"Science is more than a body of knowledge.
It's a way of thinking,
a way of skeptically interrogating the universe. "
COMC Saga-w
1934 - 1996
skotcher.com
It's a way of thinking,
a way of skeptically interrogating the universe. "
COMC Saga-w
1934 - 1996
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I don't want to believe. I want to know.
Carl Sagan
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Carl Sagan
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SOMEWHERE
SOMETHING
INCREDIBLE
is waiting
BKNOWN
-CARL SAGAN
etsystatic.com
SOMETHING
INCREDIBLE
is waiting
BKNOWN
-CARL SAGAN
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Carl
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There are naive questions, tedious
questions, ill-phrased questions,
questions put after inadequate
self-criticism. But every question is a
cry to understand the world. There
is no such thing as a dumb question.
Canl Sagan
AZ QUOTES
networkingtimes.com
questions, ill-phrased questions,
questions put after inadequate
self-criticism. But every question is a
cry to understand the world. There
is no such thing as a dumb question.
Canl Sagan
AZ QUOTES
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"The cosmos is within us;
we're made of star stuff.
We are a way for the
cosmos to know itself."
Carl Sagan
sedsindia.org
we're made of star stuff.
We are a way for the
cosmos to know itself."
Carl Sagan
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Every kid starts out
as a natural-born
scientist/ and then
we beat it out of them.
A few trickle through
the system with their
wonder and enthusiasm
for science intact.
Carl Sagan
12
collectivelyconscious.net
as a natural-born
scientist/ and then
we beat it out of them.
A few trickle through
the system with their
wonder and enthusiasm
for science intact.
Carl Sagan
12
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O ME
...ce of Your Spirit
"Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a
profound source of spirituality. When we recognize our
place in an immensity of light-years and in the passage of ages,
when we grasp the intricacy, beauty, and subtlety of life, then
that soaring feeling, that sense of elation and humility combined,
is surely spiritual...The notion that science and spirituality are
somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both. "
American astrophysicist.
Carl Sagan
http://www.mikepoeltl.com/science-and-spirit-books.html
mikepoeltl.com
...ce of Your Spirit
"Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a
profound source of spirituality. When we recognize our
place in an immensity of light-years and in the passage of ages,
when we grasp the intricacy, beauty, and subtlety of life, then
that soaring feeling, that sense of elation and humility combined,
is surely spiritual...The notion that science and spirituality are
somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both. "
American astrophysicist.
Carl Sagan
http://www.mikepoeltl.com/science-and-spirit-books.html
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Writing is perhaps the greatest of
human inventions, binding together
people who never knew each other,
citizens of distant epochs. Books break
the shackles of time. A book is proof
that humans are capable of magic.
Can Sagan
AZ QUOTES
hippoquotes.com
human inventions, binding together
people who never knew each other,
citizens of distant epochs. Books break
the shackles of time. A book is proof
that humans are capable of magic.
Can Sagan
AZ QUOTES
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"We live in a society
exquisitely dependent
on science
and technology,
in which hardly anyone
knows anything about
science and technology."
- Carl Sagan
tumblr.com
exquisitely dependent
on science
and technology,
in which hardly anyone
knows anything about
science and technology."
- Carl Sagan
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"Somewhere,
something incredible
is waiting to be
known."
Carl Sagan
granthuhn.com
something incredible
is waiting to be
known."
Carl Sagan
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"IN SCIENCE IT OFTEN HAPPENS THAT
SCIENTISTS SAY, 'YOU KNOW THAT'S A
REALLY GOOD ARGUMENT; MY POSITION IS
MISTAKEN,' AND THEN THEY WOULD
ACTUALLY CHANGE THEIR MINDS AND YOU
NEVER HEAR THAT OLD VIEW FROM THEM
AGAIN. THEY REALLY DO IT. IT DOESN'T
HAPPEN AS OFTEN AS IT SHOULD, BECAUSE
SCIENTISTS ARE HUMAN AND CHANGE IS
SOMETIMES PAINFUL. BUT IT HAPPENS
EVERY DAY. I CANNOT RECALL THE LAST
TIME SOMETHING LIKE THAT HAPPENED IN
POLITICS OR RELIGION." — CARL SAGAN
s3.amazonaws.com
SCIENTISTS SAY, 'YOU KNOW THAT'S A
REALLY GOOD ARGUMENT; MY POSITION IS
MISTAKEN,' AND THEN THEY WOULD
ACTUALLY CHANGE THEIR MINDS AND YOU
NEVER HEAR THAT OLD VIEW FROM THEM
AGAIN. THEY REALLY DO IT. IT DOESN'T
HAPPEN AS OFTEN AS IT SHOULD, BECAUSE
SCIENTISTS ARE HUMAN AND CHANGE IS
SOMETIMES PAINFUL. BUT IT HAPPENS
EVERY DAY. I CANNOT RECALL THE LAST
TIME SOMETHING LIKE THAT HAPPENED IN
POLITICS OR RELIGION." — CARL SAGAN
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EVERY KID STARTS OUT AS
A NATURAL-BORN SCIENTIST
AND THEN
WE BEAT IT OUT OF THEM.
FEW TRICKLE THROUGH THE SYSTEM WITH
THEIR WONDER AND ENTHUSIASM
FOR SCIENCE INTACT.
CAR SAGAN
cdnpix.com
A NATURAL-BORN SCIENTIST
AND THEN
WE BEAT IT OUT OF THEM.
FEW TRICKLE THROUGH THE SYSTEM WITH
THEIR WONDER AND ENTHUSIASM
FOR SCIENCE INTACT.
CAR SAGAN
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If intelligence is our only edge, we
must learn to use it better, to shape
it, to understand its limitations and
deficiencies to use it as cats use
stealth, as katydids use camouflage
to make it the tool of our survival.
Canl Sagan
AZ QUOTES
relatably.com
must learn to use it better, to shape
it, to understand its limitations and
deficiencies to use it as cats use
stealth, as katydids use camouflage
to make it the tool of our survival.
Canl Sagan
AZ QUOTES
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"One of the saddest lessons of
history is this: if we've been
bamboozled long enough, we
tend to reject any evidence of
the bamboozle. We're no
longer interested in finding out
the truth. The bamboozle has
captured us. It's simply too
painful to acknowledge, even
to ourselves, that we've been
taken. Once you give a
charlatan power over you, you
almost never get it back. So
the old bamboozles tend to
persist as the new ones rise."
- Carl Sagan - "The Demon-Haunted UJ0rld.-
FACEBOOK.COM/GSHYP
indonesianskepticsociety.files.wordpress.com
history is this: if we've been
bamboozled long enough, we
tend to reject any evidence of
the bamboozle. We're no
longer interested in finding out
the truth. The bamboozle has
captured us. It's simply too
painful to acknowledge, even
to ourselves, that we've been
taken. Once you give a
charlatan power over you, you
almost never get it back. So
the old bamboozles tend to
persist as the new ones rise."
- Carl Sagan - "The Demon-Haunted UJ0rld.-
FACEBOOK.COM/GSHYP
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THE IDEA THAT GOD IS AN OVERSIZED WHITE MALE
WITH A FLOWING BEARD WHO SITS IN THE SKY AND
TALLIES THE FALL OF EVERY SPARROW IS LUDICROUS.
BUT IF BY GOD ONE MEANS THE SET OF PHYSICAL
WS THAT GOVERN THE UNIVERSE. THEN CLEARLY
HERE IS SUCH A GOD. THIS GOD IS EMOTIONALLY
UNSATISFYING... IT DOES NOT MAKE MUCH SENSE TO
PRAY TO THE LAW OF GRAVITY.
- CARL SAGAN
stevebloor.files.wordpress.com
WITH A FLOWING BEARD WHO SITS IN THE SKY AND
TALLIES THE FALL OF EVERY SPARROW IS LUDICROUS.
BUT IF BY GOD ONE MEANS THE SET OF PHYSICAL
WS THAT GOVERN THE UNIVERSE. THEN CLEARLY
HERE IS SUCH A GOD. THIS GOD IS EMOTIONALLY
UNSATISFYING... IT DOES NOT MAKE MUCH SENSE TO
PRAY TO THE LAW OF GRAVITY.
- CARL SAGAN
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If you lived two or three millennia ago,
there was no shame in holding that the
Universe was made for us. It was an
appealing thesis consistent with everything
we knew; it was what the most learned
among us taught without qualification.
But we have found out much since
then. Defending such a position
today amounts to willful disregard
of the evidence, and a flight from
self-knowledge.
Carl Sagan
pinimg.com
there was no shame in holding that the
Universe was made for us. It was an
appealing thesis consistent with everything
we knew; it was what the most learned
among us taught without qualification.
But we have found out much since
then. Defending such a position
today amounts to willful disregard
of the evidence, and a flight from
self-knowledge.
Carl Sagan
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who
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"IN SCIENCE IT OFTEN HAPPENS THAT
SCIENTISTS SAY, 'YOU KNOW THAT'S A
REALLY GOOD ARGUMENT; MY POSITION IS
MISTAKEN,' AND THEN THEY WOULD
ACTUALLY CHANGE THEIR MINDS AND YOU
NEVER HEAR THAT OLD VIEW FROM THEM
AGAIN. THEY REALLY DO IT. IT DOESN'T
HAPPEN AS OFTEN AS IT SHOULD, BECAUSE
SCIENTISTS ARE HUMAN AND CHANGE IS
SOMETIMES PAINFUL. BUT IT HAPPENS
EVERY DAY. I CANNOT RECALL THE LAST
TIME SOMETHING LIKE THAT HAPPENED IN
POLITICS OR RELIGION. "
CARL SAGAN
blogspot.com
SCIENTISTS SAY, 'YOU KNOW THAT'S A
REALLY GOOD ARGUMENT; MY POSITION IS
MISTAKEN,' AND THEN THEY WOULD
ACTUALLY CHANGE THEIR MINDS AND YOU
NEVER HEAR THAT OLD VIEW FROM THEM
AGAIN. THEY REALLY DO IT. IT DOESN'T
HAPPEN AS OFTEN AS IT SHOULD, BECAUSE
SCIENTISTS ARE HUMAN AND CHANGE IS
SOMETIMES PAINFUL. BUT IT HAPPENS
EVERY DAY. I CANNOT RECALL THE LAST
TIME SOMETHING LIKE THAT HAPPENED IN
POLITICS OR RELIGION. "
CARL SAGAN
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•Look again at that dot Thafs here. That's home. That's us.
On it everyone you love. everyone you know. everyone you
ever heard of, every human being who ever was. lived out
their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands
Of confident religions. ideologies. and economic doctrines,
every hunter and forager. every hero and coward. every
creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant.
every young couple in love. every mother and father, hopeful
child. inventor and explorer. every teacher of morals. every
corrupt politician, every •superstar.' every •supreme leader:
every saint and sinner in the history Of our species lived there
— on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam:
- cart Sagan, 1934-1996
You are here
The Earth as imaged from the the Voyager
spacecraft, as it exited the solar system in 1990.
Earth is neariy 4 billion miles away in this image.
spirofloblog.files.wordpress.com
On it everyone you love. everyone you know. everyone you
ever heard of, every human being who ever was. lived out
their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands
Of confident religions. ideologies. and economic doctrines,
every hunter and forager. every hero and coward. every
creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant.
every young couple in love. every mother and father, hopeful
child. inventor and explorer. every teacher of morals. every
corrupt politician, every •superstar.' every •supreme leader:
every saint and sinner in the history Of our species lived there
— on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam:
- cart Sagan, 1934-1996
You are here
The Earth as imaged from the the Voyager
spacecraft, as it exited the solar system in 1990.
Earth is neariy 4 billion miles away in this image.
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"SCIENCE IS PERFECT.
IT'S OFTEN MISUSED;
IT'S ONLY WEHAVE.
SELF-GORRECTING,EVER-GHANCING
-CARLSAGAN
LIVE$QUOTES.COM
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IT'S OFTEN MISUSED;
IT'S ONLY WEHAVE.
SELF-GORRECTING,EVER-GHANCING
-CARLSAGAN
LIVE$QUOTES.COM
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SCIENCE IS A
WAY OF
THINKING
MUCH MORE
THAN IT ISA
BODY OF
KNOWLEDGE.
Carl Sagan
PICTURE
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WAY OF
THINKING
MUCH MORE
THAN IT ISA
BODY OF
KNOWLEDGE.
Carl Sagan
PICTURE
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FOR S
creattc«es
SUCH AS W€
VASTNESS
BEARABLE
O BJI-Y THROUGH
SAGAN
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creattc«es
SUCH AS W€
VASTNESS
BEARABLE
O BJI-Y THROUGH
SAGAN
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Skeptical scrutiny.is the
means, in'both science and
religion, by which deep
thoughts can be winnowed
from. deep nonsense.
Carl Sagan
Am rican astronomer€
QuoteHÖ.com
11934-1996)
quotehd.com
means, in'both science and
religion, by which deep
thoughts can be winnowed
from. deep nonsense.
Carl Sagan
Am rican astronomer€
QuoteHÖ.com
11934-1996)
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Ulf
WAND
Silli
4
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WAND
Silli
4
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"Better the hard teuth, I say, than the comforting
fantasy: And in the final tolling it often turns out that
the facts are mea ppmforting than the fantasy."»
rl Sagan
tumblr.com
fantasy: And in the final tolling it often turns out that
the facts are mea ppmforting than the fantasy."»
rl Sagan
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humane long to be with our or-One,
eo we create rituals.
Science is another wau to thie brnging,
it also connects us with our origins, and it tcx•, hae ite rituals.
and ite cornmandrnerts
Its onu truth, is that there are no sacred truths.-
-CARL SAGAN
wallpaperup.com
eo we create rituals.
Science is another wau to thie brnging,
it also connects us with our origins, and it tcx•, hae ite rituals.
and ite cornmandrnerts
Its onu truth, is that there are no sacred truths.-
-CARL SAGAN
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"Our species needs, and
deserves, a citizenry with
minds wide awake and a basic
understanding of how the
world works. "
— Carl Sagan
blogspot.com
deserves, a citizenry with
minds wide awake and a basic
understanding of how the
world works. "
— Carl Sagan
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Science is away to call the bluff of those who only pretend to knowledge.
It is a bulwark against mysticism, against superstition, againstreligion misapplied
to where it has no business being.
If we're true to its values, it can tell us when we're being lied to. It provides a
mid-course correction to our mistakes.
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 practice these tough habits of thought, we cannot hope
to solve the truly serious problems that face us — we risk
becoming a nation of suckers, up 'or grabs by the next charlatan
who comes along.
Carl Sagan
Qationalhub.com
facebookcom/rationalh•,
deviantart.net
It is a bulwark against mysticism, against superstition, againstreligion misapplied
to where it has no business being.
If we're true to its values, it can tell us when we're being lied to. It provides a
mid-course correction to our mistakes.
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 practice these tough habits of thought, we cannot hope
to solve the truly serious problems that face us — we risk
becoming a nation of suckers, up 'or grabs by the next charlatan
who comes along.
Carl Sagan
Qationalhub.com
facebookcom/rationalh•,
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