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Long Quotes by Carl Sagan
- The politicians and the religious leaders and the weapons scientists have been at it for a long time and they've made a thorough mess of…
- Our children long for realistic maps of the future that they can be proud of. Where are the cartographers of human purpose?
- As agonizing a disease as cancer is, I do not think it can be said that our civilization is threatened by it. ... But a…
- My long-time view about Christianity is that it represents an amalgam of two seemingly immiscible parts-the religion of Jesus and the religion of Paul. Thomas…
- If our long-term survival is at stake, we have a basic responsibility to our species to venture to other worlds. Sailors on a becalmed sea,…
- Religions are often state-protected nurseries of pseudoscience, although there's no reason why religions have to play that role. In a way, it's an artefact from…
- If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do…
- Since, in the long run, every planetary civilization will be endangered by impacts from space, every surviving civilization is obliged to become spacefaring--not because of…
- Widespread intellectual and moral docility may be convenient for leaders in the short term, but it is suicidal for nations in the long term. One…
- 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…
- One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re…
- 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…
- We have begun to contemplate our origins: starstuff pondering the stars; organized assemblages of ten billion billion billion atoms considering the evolution of atoms; tracing…
- The surface of the Earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean. On this shore, we've learned most of what we know. Recently, we've waded…
- Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic…
- 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…
- 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…
- For a long time the human instinct to understand was thwarted by facile religious explanations.
- When Kepler found his long-cherished belief did not agree with the most precise observation, he accepted the uncomfortable fact. He preferred the hard truth to…
- The secrets of evolution are death and time-the deaths of enormous numbers of lifeforms that were imperfectly adapted to the environment; and time for a…
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- Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories. — Karen Armstrong
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- Animators have to live life 24 times as long as we do - every 24 frames of a second. — Darren Aronofsky
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- So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to… — Antonin Artaud
- He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont… — Isaac Asimov
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