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Doe Quotes by Carl Sagan
- An atheist is someone who is certain that God does not exist, someone who has compelling evidence against the existence of God. I know of…
- What does it mean for a civilisation to be a million years old? We have had radio telescopes and spaceships for a few decades; our…
- 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…
- Chlorine is a deadly poison gas employed on European battlefields in World War I. Sodium is a corrosive metal which burns upon contact with water.…
- I hold that popularization of science is successful if, at first, it does no more than spark the sense of wonder.
- The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.
- We are, in a way, temporary ambulatory repositories for our nucleic acids. This does not deny our humanity; it does not prevent us from pursuing…
- The fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses.
- It does no harm to the romance of the sunset to know a little bit about it.
- How smart does a chimp have to be before killing him constitutes murder?
- The chief deficiency I see in the skeptical movement is its polarization: Us vs. Them - the sense that we have a monopoly on the…
- Valid criticism does you a favor.
- But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they…
- If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do…
- The idea that God is an oversized white male with a flowing beard, who sits in the sky and tallies the fall of every sparrow…
- 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…
- If we are merely matter intricately assembled, is this really demeaning? If there's nothing here but atoms, does that make us less or does that…
- An atheist is someone who is certain that God does not exist, someone who has compelling evidence against the existence of God. I know of…
- We humans look rather different from a tree. Without a doubt we perceive the world differently than a tree does. But down deep, at the…
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