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Men Quotes by Carl Sagan
- 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…
- Scientists constantly get clobbered with the idea that we spent 27 billion dollars on the Apollo programs, and are asked "What more do you want?"…
- 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…
- We are the product of 4.5 billion years of fortuitous, slow biological evolution. There is no reason to think that the evolutionary process has stopped.…
- Man is a transitional animal. He is not the climax of creation
- It is said that men may not be the dreams of the god, but rather that the gods are the dreams of men.
- It is said that men may not be the dreams of the Gods, but rather that the Gods are the dreams of men.
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- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
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- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
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