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Things Quotes by Carl Sagan
- Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
- 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:…
- 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…
- There is a lurking fear that some things are not meant to be known.
- Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge. Its goal is to find out how the world works,…
- We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with…
- People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons. The last way for skeptics to get the attention of bright, curious, intelligent people is to…
- You can get into a habit of thought in which you enjoy making fun of all those other people who don't see things as clearly…
- Science is an attempt, largely successful, to understand the world, to get a grip on things, to get hold of ourselves, to steer a safe…
- Cosmos is a Greek word for the order of the universe. It is, in a way, the opposite of Chaos. It implies the deep interconnectedness…
- Atheism is more than just the knowledge that gods do not exist, and that religion is either a mistake or a fraud. Atheism is an…
More Things Quotes
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Change in all things is sweet. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle