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    Carl Sagan
    “For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.”
    ― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
    tags: cosmology, delusion, knowledge, religion, science, truth, understanding
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    Carl Sagan
    “If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”
    ― Carl Sagan, Cosmos
    tags: science
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    Carl Sagan
    “The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.”
    ― Carl Sagan, Cosmos
    tags: atoms, cosmos, dna, sense-of-wonder, stars
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    Margaret Mead
    “Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.”
    ― Margaret Mead
    tags: children, education, judgement, mentoring, reasoning
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    Margaret Mead
    “We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.”
    ― Margaret Mead
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    Margaret Mead
    “Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For indeed that's all who ever have. ”
    ― Margaret Mead, The World Ahead: An Anthropologist Anticipates the Future
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    Carl Sagan
    “But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.”
    ― Carl Sagan, Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science
    tags: genius, humor, laughter, philosophy
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    Bertrand Russell
    “Never let yourself be diverted, either by what you wish to believe, or what you think could have beneficent social effects if it were believed; but look only and solely at what are the facts.”
    ― Bertrand Russell
    tags: philosophy
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    David Quammen
    “Alternatively, anyone who favors Intelligent Design in lieu of evolution might pause to wonder why God devoted so much of His intelligence to designing malarial parasites.”
    ― David Quammen, Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
    tags: evolution, humor, science
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    Harlan Ellison
    “You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.”
    ― Harlan Ellison
    tags: ignorance, intelligence, opinions, stupidity
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
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    Thich Nhat Hanh
    “To be or not to be, that is not a question, because reality transcends both notions of birth and death, of being and non-being.”
    ― Thích Nhất Hạnh
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    Albert Camus
    “An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. "Can they be brought together?" This is a practical question. We must get down to it. "I despise intelligence" really means: "I cannot bear my doubts.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: intellectuals, intelligence, philosophy, scholars
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    Hermann Hesse
    “It is not for me to judge another man's life. I must judge, I must choose, I must spurn, purely for myself. For myself, alone.”
    ― Herman Hesse, Siddhartha
    tags: choices, focus, humility, judgement, judgemental, self, tolerance
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    Epicurus
    “Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not.”
    ― Epicurus
    tags: awful, death, inspirational, peace, philosophy, serenity, wisdom
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    Audrey Hepburn
    “I have to be alone very often. I'd be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That's how I refuel.”
    ― Audrey Hepburn
    tags: alone, content, privacy, refueling, reprive, restoration, solitude, weekend
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    Carl Sagan
    “It pays to keep an open mind, but not so open your brains fall out.”
    ― Carl Sagan
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    Thomas Henry Huxley
    “Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed.”
    ― Thomas Henry Huxley
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    Bertrand Russell
    “Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.”
    ― Bertrand Russell
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