Carl Sagan quotes - page 16

I say "Listen closely, you sonofabitch of the morning! This stuff is real!" (Carl Sagan)
At the molecular level, we are all virtually identical. View quote
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We need wide appreciation of this kind of thinking. It works. It's an essential tool for a democracy in an age of change. Our task is not just to train more scientists but also to deepen public understanding of science. View quote
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A sense of what the world is really like can be maddening; cannabis has brought me some feelings for what it is like to be crazy, and how we use that word "crazy" to avoid thinking about things that are too painful for us. View quote
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We could not guess how different from us they (extraterrestrials) might be. View quote
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A scientific colleague tells me about a recent trip to the New Guinea highlands where she visited a stone age culture hardly contacted by Western civilization. They were ignorant of wristwatches, soft drinks, and frozen food. But they knew about Apollo 11. View quote
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It is sometimes said that scientists are unromantic, that their passion to figure out robs the world of beauty and mystery. View quote
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Those who raise questions about the God hypothesis and the soul hypothesis are by no means all atheists. View quote
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And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces. Who is running the science and technology in a democracy if the people don't know anything about it? View quote
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There's a part of me making, creating the perceptions which in everyday life would be bizarre; there's another part of me which is a kind of observer. About half of the pleasure comes from the observer-part appreciating the work of the creator-part. View quote
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Yet from his work, we have found that scientific laws pervade all of nature, that the same rules apply on Earth as in the skies, that we can find a resonance, a harmony, between the way we think and the way the world works. (Carl Sagan)
The nature of life on earth and the quest for life elsewhere are the two sides of the same question: the search for who we are. View quote
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The universe was made on purpose, the circle said. View quote
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Widespread intellectual and moral docility may be convenient for leaders in the short term, but it is suicidal for nations in the long term. View quote
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They were able to bring out the best in us. View quote
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For the first time, we have the power to decide the fate of our planet and ourselves. View quote
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The children of the privileged grow up expecting that, through no particular effort of their own, they will retain a privileged position. View quote
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I know that science and technology are not just cornucopias pouring good deeds out into the world. View quote
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In love with whole numbers, the Pythagoreans believed that all things could be derived from them. Certainly all other numbers. So a crisis in doctrine occurred when they discovered that the square root of two was irrational. View quote
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There can be an infinite number of polygons, but only five regular solids. View quote
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Science is much more than a body of knowledge. It is a way of thinking. This is central to its success. Science invites us to let the facts in, even when they don't conform to our preconceptions. (Carl Sagan)
If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth. View quote
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[:] If ‘fulfilled prophecy' is your criterion, why do you not believe in materialistic science, which has an unparalleled record of fulfilled prophecy? Consider, for example, eclipses. View quote
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I've always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions. View quote
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We make our purpose. View quote
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