"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."

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Source : "Wonder and Skepticism". The Skeptical Inquirer 19 (1), www.csicop.org. January/February 1995.

Carl Sagan

#Science Quotes #Vastness Quotes #May Quotes

“No lie can live forever.”
“If they had gotten rid of the apostasy punishment Islam wouldn't exist today.”
“[His] library was a fine dark place bricked with books, so anything could happen there and always did. All you had to do was pull a book from the shelf and open it and suddenly the darkness was not so dark anymore.”
“If all the people around you are happy with you, you are not doing great work. Progress is disruption and change.”
“Go forward while you can, but if your strength fails you, sit down near the road and gaze without anger or envy at those who pass by. They don't have far to go, either.”

Source : Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1994). “Essential Turgenev”, p.183, Northwestern University Press
“I feel like I'm still discovering my stage style, but I love - well, I'm not a huge color person onstage, but I am in real life.”

Source : Source: www.glamour.com
“I'm suddenly worried people will think that I believe their religion can be summed up on four sex-obsessed sentences.”
“Great loves have legs and wings. They are substantial. They do not dissapate so easily... Great loves have staying power. Or so I told myself.”

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