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Among Quotes by Carl Sagan
- Recent research shows that many children who do not have enough to eat wind up with diminished capacity to understand and learn. Children don't have…
- There is a reward structure in science that is very interesting: Our highest honors go to those who disprove the findings of the most revered…
- Philosophers and scientists confidently offer up traits said to be uniquely human, and the monkeys and apes casually knock them down -- toppling the pretension…
- Even Johannes Kepler, Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Gregor Mendel, and Albert Einstein made serious mistakes. But the scientific enterprise arranges things so that teamwork prevails:…
- 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…
- I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.
- 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…
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- When I was a kid, among the other embarrassing things I would do, and there's a list of stupid things, but I… — J. J. Abrams
- Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is. — Malcolm Arnold
- These people were well dressed in skins, had some guns, but armed generally with bows and arrows and such other instruments of… — William Henry Ashley
- Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural history that… — David Attenborough
- I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood
- Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted. — Saint Augustine
- The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the true religion… — Saint Augustine
- Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has… — Marcus Aurelius
- India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex thing, not… — Sri Aurobindo
- I am inclined to attach some importance to the new system of manufacturing; and venture to throw it out with the hope… — Charles Babbage