Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep insights can be winnowed from deep nonsense.

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"For small creatures such as we, the vastness is bearable only through love."

- Carl Sagan

Love

"For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love."

- Carl Sagan

Love

"For small creatures, such as we, the vastness is bearable only through love."

- Carl Sagan

Love

"the vastness is bearable only through love."

- Carl Sagan

Love

"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."

- Carl Sagan

Awareness

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"We cannot solve problems with the kind of thinking we employed when we came up with them."

- Albert Einstein

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"Vision is not what your eyes see, but an image that your brain comprehends."

- Touko Aozaki

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"The difference between genius and stupidity is; genius has its limits."

- Albert Einstein

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"Someone asked me, if I were stranded on a desert island what book would I bring: ‘How to Build a Boat.’"

- Steven Wright

Insight

"The shell of an oyster only hides the pearl inside."

- Jack

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