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Far Quotes by Carl Sagan
- [Science] is not perfect. It can be misused. It is only a tool. But it is by far the best tool we have, self-correcting, ongoing,…
- Science is far from a perfect instrument of knowledge. It's just the best we have.
- One trend that bothers me is the glorification of stupidity, that the media is reassuring people it's alright not to know anything. That to me…
- The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our…
- Better by far to embrace the hard truth than a reassuring fable. If we crave some cosmic purpose, then let us find ourselves a worthy…
- Science is a collaborative enterprise, spanning the generations. When it permits us to see the far side of some new horizon, we remember those who…
- It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
- Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten…
- Present global culture is a kind of arrogant newcomer. It arrives on the planetary stage following four and a half billion years of other acts,…
- The near side of a galaxy is tens of thousands of light-years closer to us than the far side; thus we see the front as…
- The significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage. We are the custodians of life's…
- By looking far out into space we are also looking far back into time, back toward the horizon of the universe, back toward the epoch…
- The fact is that far more crime and child abuse has been committed by zealots in the name of God, Jesus and Mohammed than has…
- We are the only species on the planet, so far as we know, to have invented a communal memory stored neither in our genes nor…
- For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
More Far Quotes
- Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. — Hannah Arendt
- I'd take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical you know you have to see what's going on in… — Alexis Arguello
- As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti,… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- It's actually amazing because you go so far into another side of your brain when you're studying something completely different, and I… — Dido Armstrong
- Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next… — Neil Armstrong
- Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to… — Johann Arndt
- An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a point so… — Sholem Asch
- Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind… — Mary Kay Ash
- As far as we are concerned, we Syria have not changed. — Bashar al-Assad
- Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity. — Nancy Astor
- I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more… — Chinua Achebe
- As far as I'm concerned, if there is a supreme being then He chose organic evolution as a way of bringing into… — David Attenborough