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Many Quotes by Carl Sagan
- Modern science has been a voyage into the unknown, with a lesson in humility waiting at every stop. Many passengers would rather have stayed home.
- Life is but a momentary glimpse of the wonder of this astonishing universe, and it is sad to see so many dreaming it away on…
- In many cultures it is customary to answer that God created the universe out of nothing. But this is mere temporizing. If we wish courageously…
- Many statements about God are confidently made by theologians on grounds that today at least sound specious. Thomas Aquinas claimed to prove that God cannot…
- Recent research shows that many children who do not have enough to eat wind up with diminished capacity to understand and learn. Children don't have…
- There is a reward structure in science that is very interesting: Our highest honors go to those who disprove the findings of the most revered…
- Because men, compared to male chimps, have such relatively small testicles (large testicles indicate a species where many males mate, one after the other, with…
- The understanding of the intent of the artist which I can achieve when high sometimes carries over to when I’m down. This is one of…
- There are many hypotheses in physics of almost comparable brillance and elegance that have been rejected because they did not survive such a confrontation with…
- When you look more generally at life on Earth, you find that it is all the same kind of life. There are not many different…
- The values of science and the values of democracy are concordant, in many cases indistinguishable. Science and democracy began - in their civilized incarnations -…
- Modern Darwinism makes it abundantly clear that many less ruthless traits, some not always admired by robber barons and Fuhrers - altruism, general intelligence, compassion…
- 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 in fact 100 billion galaxies, each of which contain something like a 100 billion stars. Think of how many stars, and planets, and…
- If all the suns but ours collapsed tonight, how many lifetimes would it take us to realize that we were alone?
- 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…
- 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…
- The Bill of Rights decoupled religion from the state, in part because so many religions were steeped in an absolutist frame of mind - each…
- Frederick Douglas taught that literacy is the path from slavery to freedom. There are many kinds of slavery and many kinds of freedom, but reading…
- An extraterrestrial being, newly arrived on Earth - scrutinizing what we mainly present to our children in television, radio, movies, newspapers, magazines, the comics, and…
- 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,…
- Many religions have attempted to make statues of their gods very large, and the idea, I suppose, is to make us feel small. But if…
- There are as many atoms in one molecule of DNA as there are stars in a typical galaxy.
- There is much that science doesn't understand, many mysteries still to be resolved. In a Universe tens of billions of light-years across and some ten…
- There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That’s perfectly all right: it’s the aperture to finding out what’s right. Science is a self-correcting…
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- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- He who hath many friends hath none. — Aristotle
- 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
- Second, we have to make the most of the strengths we have, the amenities that many of our competitors cannot replicate. But… — Gerard Arpey
- The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better. — Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
- Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind… — Mary Kay Ash
- So many women just don't know how great they really are. They come to us all vogue outside and vague on the… — Mary Kay Ash
- In my role as Wikileaks editor, I've been involved in fighting off many legal attacks. To do that, and keep our sources… — Julian Assange
- The clear problem of the outlawing of insult is that too many things can be interpreted as such. Criticism, ridicule, sarcasm, merely… — Rowan Atkinson
- But, actually, so many of the clerics that I've met, particularly the Church of England clerics, are people of such extraordinary smugness… — Rowan Atkinson
- I'm not a collector. I don't like the toy cupboard syndrome that causes so many good cars to evaporate. — Rowan Atkinson