Believable Quote by Carl Sagan Download Open image “Extraordinary observations require extraordinary evidence to make them believable.” — Carl Sagan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Believable Evidence Extraordinary Observation
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and it is my job, my responsibility, as an astronomer to remind people that alien hypotheses should always be… — Tabetha S. Boyajian Copy Share Image
For years I've been stressing with regard to UFOs that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The weight of evidence for an extraordinary claim must be proportioned to its strangeness. — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
I believe that the extraordinary should be pursued. But extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“a skeptic's mantra is "extraordinary beliefs require extraordinary evidence.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I believe in evidence. I believe in observation, measurement, and reasoning, confirmed by independent observers. I'll believe anything, no matter how wild and ridiculous,… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
There is an overwhelming mass of authentic evidence which can be cited as: direct observation, indirect observation, and supporting evidence or indication.... — Morris K. Jessup Copy Share Image
It is sometimes said that scientists are unromantic, that their passion to figure out robs the world of beauty and mystery. But is it… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The prediction of nuclear winter is drawn not, of course, from any direct experience with the consequences of global nuclear war, but rather from… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion or in politics, but it is not the path to knowledge; it has no… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Telepathy’ literally means to feel at a distance, just as ‘telephone’ is to hear at a distance and ‘television’ is to see at a… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“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… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies,… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
In our time, we have sifted the sands of Mars, we have established a presence there, we have fulfilled a century of dreams! — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“[ When a religious couple wrote to Sagan about fulfilled prophecies, he wrote back in May 1996 :] If ‘fulfilled prophecy’ is your criterion,… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors. The library connects us with the insight and knowledge, painfully… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
We live on a hunk of rock and metal that circles a humdrum star that is one of 400 billion other stars that make… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
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… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Kids, if anything, are harder to write for because they are a more discerning audience. They will not stay with you if you go… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Making the unbelievable believable is different on a set with 'Fantastic Four,' where it's like, 'Wind machines! Because the airship is coming in and… — Kerry Washington Copy Share Image
'The Avengers' made it more believable that I could have been a major in the U.S. Army. — Cobie Smulders Copy Share Image
In creating the strange milieu in which your story takes place, you must first understand as well as you possibly can the familiar milieu… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Mostly it's lies, writing novels. You set out to tell an untrue story and you try to make it believable, even to yourself. Which… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
American traditions and the American ethic require us to be truthful, but the most important reason is that truth is the best propaganda and… — Edward R. Murrow Copy Share Image
Why am I an atheist? The short answer is that I cannot accept any of the alternatives. I simply don't find them believable. — Barbara Smoker Copy Share Image
I don't understand that, because I think that what people like most about the show is that they recognize themselves in the characters and… — Patricia Richardson Copy Share Image
An idea has no worth at all without believable characters to implement it; a plot without characters is like a tennis court without players.… — Chuck Jones Copy Share Image
What is most important to me is that my narrator's voice is believable, and that, though it is clearly an absolute fiction, it has… — Chris Bohjalian Copy Share Image
I'm straight, but the character was too important to me to muddle his world with my private life. As a nobody, I got away… — Gale Harold Copy Share Image
