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Nuclear Quotes by Carl Sagan

9 Nuclear quotes by Carl Sagan

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Carl Sagan’s take on nuclear matters comes across in these nine succinct reflections. Though brief, each line captures his characteristic blend of scientific curiosity and human concern, giving you a quick glimpse into how he framed this powerful force.

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If the greenhouse effect is a blanket in which we wrap ourselves to keep warm, nuclear winter kicks the blanket off.

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Except for fools and madmen, everyone knows that nuclear war would he an unprecedented human catastrophe.

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The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist deep in gasoline, one with three matches, the other with five.

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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…

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We have heard the rationales offered by the nuclear superpowers. We know who speaks for the nations. But who speaks for the…

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Every thinking person fears nuclear war, and every technological state plans for it. Everyone knows it is madness, and every nation has…

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When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion.

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The professed function of the nuclear weapons on each side is to prevent the other side from using their nuclear weapons. If…

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Teller contended, not implausibly, that hydrogen bombs keep the peace, or at least prevent thermonuclear war, because the consequences of warfare between…

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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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