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Firsts 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…
- [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,…
- We are at a crossroads in human history. Never before has there been a moment so simultaneously perilous and promising. We are the first species…
- I hold that popularization of science is successful if, at first, it does no more than spark the sense of wonder.
- I don't know the answer. Maybe no one knows. Maybe when you grow up, you'll be the first to find out.
- How lucky we are to live in this time / the first moment in human history / when we are in fact visiting other worlds
- We on Earth have just awakened to the great oceans of space and time from which we have emerged. We are the legacy of 15…
- We seem, these days, much more willing to recognize the perils before us than we were even a decade ago. The newly recognized dangers threaten…
- Centuries hence, when current social and political problems may seem as remote as the problems of the Thirty Years' War are to us, our age…
- We are the first species to have taken our evolution into our own hands.
- Ours is the first generation that has grown up with science-fiction ideas.
- If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
- If God is omnipotent and omniscient, why didn't he start the universe out in the first place so it would come out the way he…
- The hole in the ozone layer is a kind of skywriting. At first it seemed to spell out our continuing complacency before a witch's brew…
- Coal, oil and gas are called fossil fuels, because they are mostly made of the fossil remains of beings from long ago. The chemical energy…
- For me, the most ironic token of [the first human moon landing] is the plaque signed by President Richard M. Nixon that Apollo 11 took…
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- The first time Haiti had free and fair democratic elections was 1990, when I was elected. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I am lucky, I'm the first to admit that. — J. J. Abrams
- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle
- In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement… — Aristotle
- Retired is being tired twice, I've thought, first tired of working, then tired of not. — Richard Armour
- The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in - there's a reason a small… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great… — Karen Armstrong