Carl Sagan quotes - page 7

Once we overcome our fear of being tiny, we find ourselves on the threshold of a vast and awesome Universe that utterly dwarfs - in time, in space, and in potential - the tidy anthropocentric proscenium of our ancestors. (Carl Sagan)
There are wonders enough out there without our inventing any. View quote
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As the ancient myth makers knew, we are children equally of the earth and the sky. View quote
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All colours are arbitrary. View quote
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The visions we offer our children shape the future. View quote
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The way to find out about our place in the universe is by examining the universe and by examining ourselves - without preconceptions, with as unbiased a mind as we can muster. View quote
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The candle flame gutters. Its little pool of light trembles. Darkness gathers. The demons begin to stir. View quote
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We on Earth have just awakened to the great oceans of space and time from which we have emerged. View quote
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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 sonorous and attractive. View quote
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If we are merely matter intricately assembled, is this really demeaning? If there's nothing here but atoms, does that make us less or does that make matter more? View quote
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We are a way for the cosmos to know itself. (Carl Sagan)
The fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. View quote
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We are all star stuff. View quote
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My view is that if there is no evidence for it, then forget about it. An agnostic is somebody who doesn't believe in something until there is evidence for it, so I'm agnostic. View quote
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Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns. View quote
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I think the discomfort that some people feel in going to the monkey cages at the zoo is a warning sign. View quote
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Arguments from authority carry little weight – authorities have made mistakes in the past. They will do so again in the future. Perhaps a better way to say it is that in science there are no authorities; at most, there are experts. View quote
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There are naive questions, tedious questions, ill-phrased questions, questions put after inadequate self-criticism. But every question is a cry to understand the world. There is no such thing as a dumb question. View quote
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Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. View quote
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Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors. View quote
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I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star. (Carl Sagan)
A galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars - billions upon billions of stars. Every star may be a sun to someone. View quote
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Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe. View quote
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Human history can be viewed as a slowly dawning awareness that we are members of a larger group. View quote
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Science is only a Latin word for knowledge. View quote
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