One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.
Tag: Carl Sagan
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A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.
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 the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true.
If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
Think of how many religions attempt to validate themselves with prophecy. Think of how many people rely on these prophecies, however vague, however unfulfilled, to support or prop up their beliefs. Yet has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science?
Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.