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Something my father dearly loved is the scientific method, and it's founded in this element of humility. The idea is that you pursue the truth wherever it goes; you need to evidence, and you can - you see if it's repeatable.


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CARL SAGAN Black holes may be apertures to elsewhen. Were we to plunge down a black hole, we would re-emerge, i...
CARL SAGAN It pays to keep an open mind, but not so open your brains fall out.
CARL SAGAN The earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all ...
CARL SAGAN I don't want to believe. I want to know.
CARL SAGAN In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my positio...
CARL SAGAN You're an interesting species. An interesting mix. You're capable of such beautiful dreams, and such...
CARL SAGAN I've written a number of books that have to do with the evolution of humans, human intelligence,...
CARL SAGAN Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors. The library connects us ...
CARL SAGAN The vast distances that separate the stars are providential. Beings and worlds are quarantined from ...
CARL SAGAN The significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and c...
CARL SAGAN The sky calls to us. If we do not destroy ourselves, we will one day venture to the stars.
CARL SAGAN The near side of a galaxy is tens of thousands of light-years closer to us than the far side; thus w...
CARL SAGAN [When a religious couple wrote to Sagan about fulfilled prophecies, he wrote back in May 1996...
CARL SAGAN I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking, feeling, remembering ...
CARL SAGAN It is said that men may not be the dreams of the Gods, but rather that the Gods are the dreams of me...
CARL SAGAN The Cosmos is all that is or was or ever will be. Our feeblest contemplations of the Cosmos stir us ...
CARL SAGAN The world is so exquisite with so much love and moral depth, that there is no reason to deceive ours...
CARL SAGAN Ann Druyan suggests an experiment: Look back again at the pale blue dot of the preceding chapter. Ta...
CARL SAGAN To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter
F. SAGAN We are not without empathetic terror when we open Pascal's 'Pensees' and read, 'I am...
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