Carl-sagan Quote by Carl Sagan Download Open image “Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.” — Carl Sagan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Carl-sagan Debate Distance Education Failure Ignorance Informed Knowledge May Mistake Perspective Rational Wells
I don't think ignorance is a way that you gain distance on something. — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Better to see widely than to see too closely and allow some feature of place or situation to catch you unawares. Do you understand? — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
Perspective is a ghastly mistake which it has taken four centuries to redress. — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
I tried to put things in perspective but sometimes you're just too close to it. — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
Sometimes you only realise how far you've travelled when you turn around and see the distance behind. — Grace Dent Copy Share Image
Sometimes, it's best to keep your distance from the world so that you can have a better view of it. — Ces Peta Copy Share Image
You don't always have to look in the distance for what's going on over there, when you actually see what's right in front of… — Juno Temple 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 not stirring to understand how the world actually works — that white light is made of colors, that color is the way we perceive the wavelengths of light, that transparent air reflects light, that in so… — Carl Sagan Copy Share
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 distance. The word suggests the communication not of thoughts but of feelings, emotions. Around a quarter of all Americans believe they’ve experienced something like telepathy. People who know each other very well, who live together, who… — Carl Sagan Copy Share
“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 extracted from Nature, of the greatest minds that ever were, with the best teachers, drawn from the entire planet and from all our history, to instruct us without tiring, and to inspire us to make our… — Carl Sagan Copy Share
We live on a hunk of rock and metal that circles a humdrum star that is one of 400 billion other stars that make up the Milky Way Galaxy which is one of billions of other galaxies which make up a universe which may be one of a very large number, perhaps an infinite number, of other universes. That is… — Carl Sagan Copy Share
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
“My main reason for scepticism about the Huxley/Sagan theory is that the human brain is demonstrably eager to see faces in random patterns, as we know from scientific evidence, on top of the numerous legends about faces of Jesus, or the Virgin Mary, or Mother Teresa, being seen on slices of toast, or pizzas, or patches of damp on a… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share
“Para criaturas pequenas como nós, a vastidão só é suportável através do amor.” — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“One consequence of this train of argument is that, even if civilizations commonly arise on planets throughout the Galaxy, few of them will be both long-lived and nontechnological. Since hazards from asteroids and comets must apply to inhabited planets all over the Galaxy, if there are such, intelligent beings everywhere will have to unify their home worlds politically, leave their… — Carl Sagan Copy Share
“CARL SAGAN SAID that if you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe. When he says “from scratch,” he means from nothing. He means from a time before the world even existed. If you want to make an apple pie from nothing at all, you have to start with the Big Bang and… — Nicola Yoon Copy Share
“Just as there are those who accept every UFO report at face value, there are also those who dismiss the idea of alien visitation out of hand and with great passion. It is, they say, unnecessary to examine the evidence, and “unscientific” even to contemplate the issue. I once helped to organize a public debate at the annual meeting of… — Carl Sagan Copy Share
“We are alive and we resonate with idea of life elsewhere, but only careful accumulation and assessment of the evidence can tell us whether… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“I promise to question everything my leaders tell me. I promise to use my critical faculties. I promise to develop my independence of thought.… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Planetary exploration satisfies our inclination for great enterprises and wanderings and quests that has been with us since our days as hunters and gatherers on the East African savannahs a million years ago. By chance—it is possible, I say, to imagine many skeins of historical causality in which this would not have transpired—in our age we are able to begin… — Carl Sagan Copy Share
“The scope and audacity of John Kennedy’s May 25, 1961, message to a joint session of Congress on “Urgent National Needs”—the speech that launched the Apollo program—dazzled me. We would use rockets not yet designed and alloys not yet conceived, navigation and docking schemes not yet devised, in order to send a man to an unknown world—a world not yet… — Carl Sagan Copy Share
“I don't think science is hard to teach because humans aren't ready for it, or because it arose only through a fluke, or because,… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Can you be sure that others have not come before you and destroyed the pristine state of the native myth? Can you be sure… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Billions of years from now our sun, then a distended red giant star, will have reduced Earth to a charred cinder. But the Voyager… — 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, why do you not believe in materialistic science, which has an unparalleled record of fulfilled prophecy? Consider, for example, eclipses.” quote by Carl Sagan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/875/carl-sagan-160_belief_when-a-religious-couple-wrote-to-sagan-a_25095.jpg)
