Numbers Quotes by Carl Sagan

11 Numbers quotes by Carl Sagan

Carl Sagan blended poetry with science, and numbers were his compass. In these eleven short thoughts, he shows how digits help us map the vastness of space.

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A googolplex is precisely as far from infinity as is the number 1... no matter what number you have in mind, infinity…

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The simplest thought, like the concept of the number one, has an elaborate logical underpinning.

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The secrets of evolution are death and time-the deaths of enormous numbers of lifeforms that were imperfectly adapted to the environment; and…

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The Hindu religion is the only of the World's great faiths dedicated to the idea that the Cosmos itself undergoes an immense,…

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Perhaps the depth of love can be calibrated by the number of different selves that are actively involved in a given relationship.

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The total number of stars in the Universe is larger than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the…

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All over the world there are enormous numbers of smart, even gifted, people who harbor a passion for science. But that passion…

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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…

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I never said it. Honest. Oh, I said there are maybe 100 billion galaxies and 10 billion trillion stars. It's hard to…

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The Hindu religion is the only one of the world’s great faiths dedicated to the idea that the Cosmos itself undergoes an…

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Since World War II, Japan has spawned enormous numbers of new religions featuring the supernatural… In Thailand, diseases are treated with pills…

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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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