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Few Quotes by Carl Sagan
- Is it fair to be suspicious of an entire profession because of a few bad apples? There are at least two important differences, it seems…
- 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…
- Few scientists now dispute that today's soaring levels of carbon dioxide and other gases in the atmosphere will cause global temperature averages to rise by…
- A millennium before Europeans were willing to divest themselves of the Biblical idea that the world was a few thousand years old, the Mayans were…
- Except for children (who don't know enough not to ask the important questions), few of us spendtime wondering why nature is the way it is…
- A multitude of aspects of the natural world that were considered miraculous only a few generations ago are now thoroughly understood in terms of physics…
- Imagine we could accelerate continuously at 1 g-what we're comfortable with on good old terra firma-to the midpoint of our voyage, and decelerate continuously at…
- I never said it. Honest. Oh, I said there are maybe 100 billion galaxies and 10 billion trillion stars. It's hard to talk about the…
- There are lots of ways to communicate what we know, but few ways to communicate what we feel. Music is one way to communicate emotions.
- We've tended in our cosmologies to make things familiar. Despite all our best efforts, we've not been very inventive. In the West, Heaven is placid…
- I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time ... when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very…
- 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,…
- Science is an attempt, largely successful, to understand the world, to get a grip on things, to get hold of ourselves, to steer a safe…
- 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…
- If I finish a book a week, I will read only a few thousand books in my lifetime, about a tenth of a percent of…
- Every kid starts out as a natural-born scientist, and then we beat it out of them. A few trickle through the system with their wonder…
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- When I was doing Bean more than I've done him in the last few years, I did strange things - like appearing… — Rowan Atkinson
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- For better or worse, zoos are how most people come to know big or exotic animals. Few will ever see wild penguins… — Diane Ackerman
- We're dabbling in eugenics all the time, breeding ideal crops to replace less aesthetic or nutritious or hardy varieties; leveling forests to… — Diane Ackerman
- The half minute which we daily devote to the winding-up of our watches is an exertion of labour almost insensible; yet, by… — Charles Babbage