Scientists Quotes by Carl Sagan

8 Scientists quotes by Carl Sagan

Carl Sagan’s awe for scientists shines in eight brief statements. They give a quick, poetic glimpse of his admiration for the scientific community.

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“We tend to hear much more about the splendors returned than the ships that brought them or the shipwrights. It has always…

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“Science is an ongoing process. It never ends. There is no single ultimate truth to be achieved, after which all the scientists…

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“On Titan the molecules that have been raining down like manna from heaven for the last 4 billion years might still be…

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“Every now and then, I’m lucky enough to teach a kindergarten or first-grade class. Many of these children are natural-born scientists -…

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In a lot of scientists, the ratio of wonder to skepticism declines in time. That may be connected with the fact that…

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Scientists make mistakes. Accordingly, it is the job of the scientist to recognize our weakness, to examine the widest range of opinions,…

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In exchange for freedom of inquiry, scientists are obliged to explain their work.

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“Every now and then, I'm lucky enough to teach a kindergarten or first-grade class. Many of these children are natural-born scientists -…

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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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