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Capable Quotes by Carl Sagan
- If chimpanzees have consciousness, if they are capable of abstractions, do they not have what until now has been described as 'human rights'? How smart…
- If we're capable of conjuring up terrifying monsters in childhood, why shouldn't some of us, at least on occasion, be able to fantasize something similar,…
- 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:…
- We are...capable of using our compassion and our intelligence, our technology and our wealth, to make an abundant and meaningful life for every inhabitant of…
- For all our failings, despite our limitations and fallibilities, we humans are capable of greatness.
- What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny…
- You're an interesting species. An interesting mix. You're capable of such beautiful dreams, and such horrible nightmares. You feel so lost, so cut off, so…
- A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.
- Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of…
- What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny,…
More Capable Quotes
- Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked: as I never was when I was not one. — Margaret Atwood
- The difference between a tool and a machine is not capable of very precise distinction; nor is it necessary, in a popular… — Charles Babbage
- My message to women is: Women: We can do it. We are capable of doing almost anything, but we must learn we… — Michelle Bachelet
- It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do… — Douglas Adams
- Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. — Douglas Adams
- In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man;… — Simone de Beauvoir
- Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense. — Joseph Addison
- If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart… — Joseph Addison
- Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude. — Aphra Behn
- If a Pope clearly realizes that he is no longer physically, psychologically, and spiritually capable of handling the duties of his office,… — Pope Benedict XVI
- I learnt a lot in government, and I've learnt a lot since leaving government. The kind of journey of being in government… — Tony Blair
- People are no longer primarily in opposition, nor can they be said to be interacting, rather they are participating in this pool… — David Bohm