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Years Quotes by Carl Sagan
- (When asked merely if they accept evolution, 45 percent of Americans say yes. The figure is 70 percent in China.) When the movie Jurassic Park…
- What does it mean for a civilisation to be a million years old? We have had radio telescopes and spaceships for a few decades; our…
- Few scientists now dispute that today's soaring levels of carbon dioxide and other gases in the atmosphere will cause global temperature averages to rise by…
- A millennium before Europeans were willing to divest themselves of the Biblical idea that the world was a few thousand years old, the Mayans were…
- Some 5 billion years from now, there will be a last perfect day on Earth... then the sun will begin to die, life will be…
- 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 on Earth have just awakened to the great oceans of space and time from which we have emerged. We are the legacy of 15…
- 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.…
- What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny…
- Centuries hence, when current social and political problems may seem as remote as the problems of the Thirty Years' War are to us, our age…
- Imagine we could accelerate continuously at 1 g-what we're comfortable with on good old terra firma-to the midpoint of our voyage, and decelerate continuously at…
- After the earth dies, some 5 billion years from now, after it's burned to a crisp, or even swallowed by the Sun, there will be…
- The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together. Information distilled over…
- I worry that, especially as the Millennium edges nearer, pseudo-science and superstition will seem year by year more tempting, the siren song of unreason more…
- All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single…
- One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through…
- A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called "leaves") imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance…
- 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,…
- The near side of a galaxy is tens of thousands of light-years closer to us than the far side; thus we see the front as…
- 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.
- There is much that science doesn't understand, many mysteries still to be resolved. In a Universe tens of billions of light-years across and some ten…
- Coal, oil and gas are called fossil fuels, because they are mostly made of the fossil remains of beings from long ago. The chemical energy…
- Before we invented civilization our ancestors lived mainly in the open out under the sky. Before we devised artificial lights and atmospheric pollution and modern…
- 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…
- What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny,…
More Years Quotes
- I wanted to get back to my style of 20 years ago after a long period of exploring horror and fantasy themes. — Dario Argento
- Tourism is a crucial industry that could employ millions of Filipinos, skilled and unskilled alike, cross those 7,107 islands of the Philippines.… — Benigno Aquino III
- Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or… — Richard Armour
- I've been playing rock and roll since I was 16 years old, and now I have a 16-year-old. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I think when you're 10 years old, it's too much to see something with the threat of death in every episode. Kids… — J. J. Abrams
- The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ. — Karen Armstrong
- Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside… — Lance Armstrong
- I joined the swim team when I was 12, and I was the worst kid in the pool - I was put… — Lance Armstrong
- It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what… — Lance Armstrong
- Obviously, I come from one background, and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and years, and… — Lance Armstrong
- Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next… — Neil Armstrong
- I learned a lot in those first years in Miami, while struggling just for survival, by observing my father's fortitude. — Desi Arnaz