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Great Quotes by Carl Sagan
- We on Earth have just awakened to the great oceans of space and time from which we have emerged.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- In the fabric of space and in the nature of matter, as in a great work of art, there is, written small, the artist's signature.
- In college, in the early 1950s, I began to learn a little about how science works, the secrets of its great success, how rigorous the…
- One of the great commandments of science is, 'Mistrust arguments from authority'. (Scientists, being primates, and thus given to dominance hierarchies, of course do not…
- What is called for is an exquisite balance between two conflicting needs: the most skeptical scrutiny of all hypotheses that are served up to us…
- And after we returned to the savannahs and abandoned the trees, did we long for those great graceful leaps and ecstatic moments of weightlessness in…
- The fossil record implies trial and error, the inability to anticipate the future, features inconsistent with a Great Designer (though not a Designer of a…
- Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
- Finding the occasional straw of truth awash in a great ocean of confusion and bamboozle requires intelligence, vigilance, dedication, and courage. But if we don't…
- Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help…
- A new consciousness is developing which sees the earth as a single organism and recognizes that an organism at war with itself is doomed. We…
- In the way that scepticism is sometimes applied to issues of public concern, there is a tendency to belittle, to condescend, to ignore the fact…
- 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…
- The Hindu religion is the only one of the world’s great faiths dedicated to the idea that the Cosmos itself undergoes an immense, indeed an…
- Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgement, the manner in which information is…
- In a lot of scientists, the ratio of wonder to skepticism declines in time. That may be connected with the fact that in some fields-mathematics,…
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