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Think Quotes by Carl Sagan
- We are an intelligent species and the use of our intelligence quite properly gives us pleasure. In this respect the brain is like a muscle.…
- That we can now think of no mechanism for astrology is relevant but unconvincing. No mechanism was known, for example, for continental drift when it…
- As agonizing a disease as cancer is, I do not think it can be said that our civilization is threatened by it. ... But a…
- I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture, and our concern for the future, can…
- You mean am I for it or against it? You think this is a key question I'm going to be asked on Vega, and you…
- There is every reason to think that in the coming years Mars and its mysteries will become increasingly familiar to the inhabitants of the Planet…
- 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.…
- We are rare and precious because we are alive, because we can think as well as we can. We are privileged to influence and perhaps…
- 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…
- What distinguishes our species is thought. The cerebral cortex is in a way a liberation. We need no longer be trapped in the genetically inherited…
- 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.
- 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…
- We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
- You mustn't think of the Universe as a wilderness. It hasn't been that for billions of years," he said. "Think of it more as... ..cultivated.
- I think the discomfort that some people feel in going to the monkey cages at the zoo is a warning sign.
- I think if we ever reach the point where we think we thoroughly understand who we are and where we came from, we will have…
- But I try not to think with my gut. If I'm serious about understanding the world, thinking with anything besides my brain, as tempting as…
- 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…
- .. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and in triumph they could become the…
- Think of how many religions attempt to validate themselves with prophecy. Think of how many people rely on these prophecies, however vague, however unfulfilled, to…
- The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors…
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