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Scientific Quotes by Carl Sagan
- We should be teaching our children the scientific method and the reasons for a Bill of Rights. With it comes a certain decency, humility and…
- If some good evidence for life after death were announced, I'd be eager to examine it; but it would have to be real scientific data,…
- My parents were not scientists. They knew almost nothing about science. But in introducing me simultaneously to skepticism and to wonder, they taught me the…
- Even Johannes Kepler, Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Gregor Mendel, and Albert Einstein made serious mistakes. But the scientific enterprise arranges things so that teamwork prevails:…
- The Big Bang is our modern scientific creation myth. It comes from the same human need to solve the cosmological riddle [Where did the universe…
- 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,…
- If we can't think for ourselves, if we're unwilling to question authority, then we're just putty in the hands of those in power. But if…
- 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…
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- The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love. — Luther Burbank
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