Carl Sagan Quotes

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• If we say that God has always been, why not save a step and conclude that the universe has always been?
• Modern science has been a voyage into the unknown, with a lesson in humility waiting at every stop. Many passengers would rather have stayed home.
• The size and age of the Cosmos are beyond ordinary human understanding. Lost somewhere between immensity and eternity is our tiny planetary home.
• An atheist is someone who is certain that God does not exist, someone who has compelling evidence against the existence of God. I know of…
• (When asked merely if they accept evolution, 45 percent of Americans say yes. The figure is 70 percent in China.) When the movie Jurassic Park…
• The politicians and the religious leaders and the weapons scientists have been at it for a long time and they've made a thorough mess of…
• Life is but a momentary glimpse of the wonder of this astonishing universe, and it is sad to see so many dreaming it away on…
• In many cultures it is customary to answer that God created the universe out of nothing. But this is mere temporizing. If we wish courageously…
• Many statements about God are confidently made by theologians on grounds that today at least sound specious. Thomas Aquinas claimed to prove that God cannot…
• We should be teaching our children the scientific method and the reasons for a Bill of Rights. With it comes a certain decency, humility and…
• It means nothing to be open to a proposition we don't understand.
• If some good evidence for life after death were announced, I'd be eager to examine it; but it would have to be real scientific data,…
• If you want to save your child from polio, you can pray or you can inoculate....Try science.
• Since World War II, Japan has spawned enormous numbers of new religions featuring the supernatural.... In Thailand, diseases are treated with pills manufactured from pulverized…
• In Italy, the Inquisition was condemning people to death until the end of the eighteenth century, and inquisitional torture was not abolished in the Catholic…
• At the extremes it is difficult to distinguish pseudoscience from rigid, doctrinaire religion.
• Is it fair to be suspicious of an entire profession because of a few bad apples? There are at least two important differences, it seems…
• Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.
• Virtually every major technological advance in the history of the human species - back to the invention of stone tools and the domestication of fire…
• Too much openness and you accept every notion, idea, and hypothesis-which is tantamount to knowing nothing. Too much skepticism-especially rejection of new ideas before they…

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