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Sometimes Quotes by Carl Sagan
- My fundamental premise about the brain is that its workings - what we sometimes call "mind" - are a consequence of its anatomy and physiology,…
- [Science] is not perfect. It can be misused. It is only a tool. But it is by far the best tool we have, self-correcting, ongoing,…
- Our intelligence is imperfect, surely, and newly arisen; the ease with which it can be sweet-talked, overwhelmed, or subverted by other hardwired propensities - sometimes…
- 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…
- These are all cases of proved or presumptive baloney. A deception arises, sometimes innocently but collaboratively, sometimes with cynical premeditation. Usually the victim is caught…
- Much of human history can, I think, be described as a gradual and sometimes painful liberation from provincialism, the emerging awareness that there is more…
- In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change…
- Science is based on experiment, on a willingness to challenge old dogma, on an openness to see the universe as it really is. Accordingly, science…
- It is sometimes said that scientists are unromantic, that their passion to figure out robs the world of beauty and mystery. But is it not…
- Our perceptions are fallible. We sometimes see what isn't there. We are prey to optical illusions. Occasionally we hallucinate. We are error-prone.
- In the way that scepticism is sometimes applied to issues of public concern, there is a tendency to belittle, to condescend, to ignore the fact…
More Sometimes Quotes
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- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion… — Karen Armstrong
- People still question my sobriety, my commitment to the program, and that hurts. I take things day by day, and sometimes I… — Tom Arnold
- It's risky in a marriage for a man to come home too late, but it can sometimes pose an even greater risk… — Marcel Achard
- We get information in the mail, the regular postal mail, encrypted or not, vet it like a regular news organization, format it… — Julian Assange
- Yeah, I know, some people are against drunk driving, and I call those people 'the cops.' But you know, sometimes, you've just… — Dave Attell
- The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair. — Chinua Achebe
- Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast. — Jane Austen
- It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before. — Jane Austen
- As a species, we've somehow survived large and small ice ages, genetic bottlenecks, plagues, world wars and all manner of natural disasters,… — Diane Ackerman
- If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with… — Richard Bach