Carl Sagan ✓

(1934–1996) university teacher

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[Wikidata] American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author (1934–1996)... | [Wikipedia] Carl Edward Sagan was an American astronomer, planetary scientist and science communicator. Initially an assistant professor at Harvard, Sagan later moved to Cornell, where he was the David Duncan Professor of Astronomy and Space Sciences and directed the Laboratory for Planetary Studies. He played

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• If we can't think for ourselves, if we're unwilling to question authority, then we're just putty in the hands of those in power. Authority
• In college, in the early 1950s, I began to learn a little about how science works, the secrets of its great success, how rigorous the… Academic
• One of the great commandments of science is, 'Mistrust arguments from authority'. (Scientists, being primates, and thus given to dominance hierarchies, of course do not… Always Follow
• Much of human history can, I think, be described as a gradual and sometimes painful liberation from provincialism, the emerging awareness that there is more… Ancestor
• Any sufficiently crisp question can be answered by a single binary digit-0 or 1, yes or no. Answered
• Curiosity and the urge to solve problems are the emotional hallmarks of our species ... Curiosity
• We are the first species to have taken our evolution into our own hands. Evolution
• Who will speak for Planet Earth? Earth
• Ours is the first generation that has grown up with science-fiction ideas. Fiction
• We have entered, almost without noticing, an age of exploration and discovery unparalleled since the Renaissance. Age
• All inquiries carry with them some element of risk. All
• Both the Freudian and the Platonic metaphors emphasize the considerable independence of and tension among the constituent parts of the psyche, a point that characterizes… Among
• Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge. Its goal is to find out how the world works,… All
• Accommodation to change, the thoughtful pursuit of alternative futures are keys to the survival of civilization and perhaps of the human species. Accommodation
• The words "question" and "quest" are cognates. Only through inquiry can we discover truth. Cognates
• The universe forces those who live in it to understand it. Force
• Books tap the wisdom of our species -- the greatest minds, the best teachers -- from all over the world and from all our history.… All
• I worry that, especially as the Millennium edges nearer, pseudo-science and superstition will seem year by year more tempting, the siren song of unreason more… Attractive
• Humans - who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals - have had an understandable penchant for pretending animals do not feel pain. Animal
• I'd like the [Cosmos] series to be so visually stimulating that somebody who isn't even interested in the concepts will just watch for the effects.… Concepts
• A single message from space will show that it is possible to live through technological adolescence. . . . It is possible that the future… Adolescence
• In the deepest sense the search for extraterrestrial intelligence is a search for ourselves. Deepest
• The Bill of Rights decoupled religion from the state, in part because so many religions were steeped in an absolutist frame of mind - each… Absolutist
• Science is a way of thinking that helps you not to fool yourself. Fool
• The passion to explore is at the heart of being human. Explore

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