Human history Quotes by Carl Sagan

8 Human history quotes by Carl Sagan

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Carl Sagan’s cosmic perspective condenses into eight concise reflections, reminding us of our place in the vast timeline of the universe.

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It would be wryly interesting if in human history the cultivation of marijuana led generally to the invention of agriculture, and thereby…

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Maxwell's Equations have had a greater impact on human history than any ten presidents.

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How lucky we are to live in this time / the first moment in human history / when we are in fact…

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By exploring other worlds we safeguard this one. By itself, I think this fact more than justifies the money our species has…

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We are at a crossroads in human history. Never before has there been a moment so simultaneously perilous and promising. We are…

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Human history can be viewed as a slowly dawning awareness that we are members of a larger group.

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Much of human history can, I think, be described as a gradual and sometimes painful liberation from provincialism, the emerging awareness that…

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Human history can be viewed as a slowly dawning awareness that we are members of a larger group Groups of people from…

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It is sometimes said that scientists are unromantic, that their passion to figure out robs the world of beauty and mystery. But is it…

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The prediction of nuclear winter is drawn not, of course, from any direct experience with the consequences of global nuclear war, but rather from…

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The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion or in politics, but it is not the path to knowledge; it has no…

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“Telepathy’ literally means to feel at a distance, just as ‘telephone’ is to hear at a distance and ‘television’ is to see at a…

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“On the scale of worlds—to say nothing of stars or galaxies—humans are inconsequential, a thin film of life on an obscure and solitary lump…

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Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies,…

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In our time, we have sifted the sands of Mars, we have established a presence there, we have fulfilled a century of dreams!

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“[ When a religious couple wrote to Sagan about fulfilled prophecies, he wrote back in May 1996 :] If ‘fulfilled prophecy’ is your criterion,…

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Don't judge everyone else by your own limited experience.

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“Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors. The library connects us with the insight and knowledge, painfully…

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We live on a hunk of rock and metal that circles a humdrum star that is one of 400 billion other stars that make…

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A tiny blue dot set in a sunbeam. Here it is. That's where we live. That's home. We humans are one species and this…

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Any sufficiently crisp question can be answered by a single binary digit-0 or 1, yes or no.

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Humans — who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals — have had an understandable penchant for pretending animals do not feel pain.…

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Every star may be a sun to someone.

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