Dr Carl Sagan Quotes

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• Who are we? Where do we come from? Why are we this way and not some other? What does it mean to be human? Are…
• That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was,…
• True human progress, that which can be linked to evolution, and which prolongs it, can only consist in perfecting and ameliorating man himself and not…
• In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken', and then they would actually change…
• ... the use of our intelligence quite properly gives us pleasure. In this respect the brain is like a muscle. When we think well, we…
• For most of human history we have searched for our place in the cosmos. Who are we? What are we? We find that we inhabit…
• There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That's perfectly all right; they're the aperture to finding out what's right. Science is a self-correcting…
• A galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars - -billions upon billions of stars
• The Universe forces those who live in it to understand it. Those creatures who find everyday experience a muddled jumble of events with no predictability,…
• James is a fucking homo

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