Home Quote by Carl Sagan

Modern science should indeed arouse in all of us a humility before the immensity of the unexplored and a tolerance for crazy hypotheses.

— Martin Gardner

“What was the point of scientific advance without moral advance? The railway would merely permit more people to move about, meet and be stupid…

— Julian Barnes

“You'd think that Modern Science would have found a cure for the common hangover by now, but evidently Modern Science has been too busy…

— Robert Kroese

“Science is not a taxi-cab that we can get in and out of whenever we like.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Travel, which is like a greater and a graver science, brings us back to ourselves.

— Albert Camus

The flight of most members of a profession to the high empyrean, where they can work peacefully on purely scientific problems, isolated from the…

— Gerald Holton

I do worry about the fact that science is becoming a slower process as society is becoming less patient.

— Alan Guth

“The technological perils that science serves up, its implicit challenge to received wisdom, and its perceived difficulty, are all reasons for some people to…

— Carl Sagan

Science demands patience.

— Arthur C. Clarke

“It is in vain that we can predict and control the course of events in the future, unless we know how to live in…

— Alan Wilson Watts

Travel is an act of humility

— Pico Iyer

Science is unpoetic only to minds jaundiced with sentiment and romanticism . . . the great masters of the past boasted all they could…

— Ezra Pound