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Hierarchy Quotes by Carl Sagan
- 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…
- What distinguishes our species is thought. The cerebral cortex is in a way a liberation. We need no longer be trapped in the genetically inherited…
- 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…
More Hierarchy Quotes
- The Minnesota Republican hierarchy didn't want me to run against their incumbent in 2000; they didn't know who I was. And once… — Michele Bachmann
- Man is a spiritual intelligence, who has taken flesh with the object of gaining experience in worlds below the spiritual, in order… — Annie Besant
- Being a monarchist, and fawning over those 'above' you, you must naturally despise those 'below' or on the same socioeconomic level as… — Julie Burchill
- Visual art and writing don't exist on an aesthetic hierarchy that positions one above the other, because each is capable of things… — William S. Burroughs
- I've never been difficult to anybody or with anybody on a picture. Especially when you're in that nice status of hierarchy of… — James Caan
- I've tried not to get sucked into the Hollywood hierarchy system. Personally, I don't like it when people are deferential to me… — James Cameron
- There's a hierarchy in prison, and I was right at the top. — Tommy Chong
- I've always run by the hierarchy of 'If not funny, interesting. If not interesting, hot. If not hot, bizarre. If not bizarre,… — Jon Stewart
- We should always be disposed to believe that that which appears white is really black, if the hierarchy of the Church so… — Ignatius Loyola
- Our vision of interconnectedness resonates with new networks of world citizens in nongovernmental organizations linking from numberless centers of energy, expressing the… — Dennis Kucinich
- Science, in its ultimate ideal, consists of a set of propositions arranged in a hierarchy, the lowest level of the hierarchy being… — Bertrand Russell
- Facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures… — Stephen Jay Gould