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We are a way for the cosmos to know itself - Carl Edward Sagan Quotes

We are a way for the cosmos to know itself

Carl Edward Sagan

You have to know the past to understand the present. - Carl Edward Sagan Quotes

You have to know the past to understand the present.

Carl Edward Sagan

Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history. - Carl Edward Sagan Quotes

Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.

Carl Edward Sagan

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 support or prop up their beliefs. Yet has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science? - Carl Edward Sagan Quotes

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 support or prop up their beliefs. Yet has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science?

Carl Edward Sagan

We are star-stuff - Carl Edward Sagan Quotes

We are star-stuff

Carl Edward Sagan

For the first time, we have the power to decide the fate of our planet and ourselves, ... This is a time of great danger, but our species is young, and curious, and brave. It shows much promise. - Carl Edward Sagan Quotes

For the first time, we have the power to decide the fate of our planet and ourselves, ... This is a time of great danger, but our species is young, and curious, and brave. It shows much promise.

Carl Edward Sagan

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. - Carl Edward Sagan Quotes

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

Carl Edward Sagan

The significance of a finding that there are other beings who share this universe with us would be absolutely phenomenal, it would be an epochal event in human history, - Carl Edward Sagan Quotes

The significance of a finding that there are other beings who share this universe with us would be absolutely phenomenal, it would be an epochal event in human history,

Carl Edward Sagan

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. Man is a transitional animal. He is not the climax of creation. - Carl Edward Sagan Quotes

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. Man is a transitional animal. He is not the climax of creation.

Carl Edward Sagan

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. - Carl Edward Sagan Quotes

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.

Carl Edward Sagan

I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students. - Carl Edward Sagan Quotes

I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.

Carl Edward Sagan

American Scientist Enthusiasm

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence - Carl Edward Sagan Quotes

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence

Carl Edward Sagan

I believe that the extraordinary should be pursued. But extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. - Carl Edward Sagan Quotes

I believe that the extraordinary should be pursued. But extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

Carl Edward Sagan

Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgment, the manner in which information is collected and used - Carl Edward Sagan Quotes

Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgment, the manner in which information is collected and used

Carl Edward Sagan

A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism. - Carl Edward Sagan Quotes

A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.

Carl Edward Sagan

American Scientist

The cosmos is all that is, or ever was, or ever will be. - Carl Edward Sagan Quotes

The cosmos is all that is, or ever was, or ever will be.

Carl Edward Sagan

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 it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces. - Carl Edward Sagan Quotes

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 it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.

Carl Edward Sagan

American Scientist

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. - Carl Edward Sagan Quotes

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

Carl Edward Sagan

American Scientist Research

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology. - Carl Edward Sagan Quotes

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

Carl Edward Sagan

American Scientist Science

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 year. Not all bits have equal value. - Carl Edward Sagan Quotes

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 year. Not all bits have equal value.

Carl Edward Sagan

American Scientist

The well-meaning contention that all ideas have equal merit seems to me little different from the disastrous contention that no ideas have any merit. - Carl Edward Sagan Quotes

The well-meaning contention that all ideas have equal merit seems to me little different from the disastrous contention that no ideas have any merit.

Carl Edward Sagan

Ideas

... the use of our intelligence quite properly gives us pleasure. In this respect the brain is like a muscle. When we think well, we feel good. Understanding is a kind of ecstasy. - Carl Edward Sagan Quotes

... the use of our intelligence quite properly gives us pleasure. In this respect the brain is like a muscle. When we think well, we feel good. Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.

Carl Edward Sagan

Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense. - Carl Edward Sagan Quotes

Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.

Carl Edward Sagan

American Scientist Nonsense

Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep insights can be winnowed from deep nonsense - Carl Edward Sagan Quotes

Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep insights can be winnowed from deep nonsense

Carl Edward Sagan

For most of human history we have searched for our place in the cosmos. Who are we? What are we? We find that we inhabit an insignificant planet of a hum-drum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are - Carl Edward Sagan Quotes

For most of human history we have searched for our place in the cosmos. Who are we? What are we? We find that we inhabit an insignificant planet of a hum-drum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are

Carl Edward Sagan

In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken', and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen - Carl Edward Sagan Quotes

In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken', and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen

Carl Edward Sagan

I also wish that the Pledge of Allegiance were directed at the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, as it is when the President takes his oath of office, rather than to the flag and the nation - Carl Edward Sagan Quotes

I also wish that the Pledge of Allegiance were directed at the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, as it is when the President takes his oath of office, rather than to the flag and the nation

Carl Edward Sagan

In our time, we have sifted the sands of Mars, we have established a presence there, we have fulfilled a century of dreams! - Carl Edward Sagan Quotes

In our time, we have sifted the sands of Mars, we have established a presence there, we have fulfilled a century of dreams!

Carl Edward Sagan

A central lesson of science is that to understand complex issues (or even simple ones), we must try to free our minds of dogma and to guarantee the freedom to publish, to contradict, and to experiment. Arguments from authority are unacceptable. - Carl Edward Sagan Quotes

A central lesson of science is that to understand complex issues (or even simple ones), we must try to free our minds of dogma and to guarantee the freedom to publish, to contradict, and to experiment. Arguments from authority are unacceptable.

Carl Edward Sagan

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 Edward Sagan Quotes

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 Edward Sagan

American Scientist

I donÃ¢â¬â¢t feel rejected by the sky. IÃ¢â¬â¢m a part of it- tiny, to be sure, but everything is tiny compared to that overwhelming immensity. - Carl Edward Sagan Quotes

I donÃ¢â¬â¢t feel rejected by the sky. IÃ¢â¬â¢m a part of it- tiny, to be sure, but everything is tiny compared to that overwhelming immensity.

Carl Edward Sagan

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge. - Carl Edward Sagan Quotes

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

Carl Edward Sagan

American Scientist Body

They laughed at Galileo. They laughed at Newton. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown. - Carl Edward Sagan Quotes

They laughed at Galileo. They laughed at Newton. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

Carl Edward Sagan

A religion old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the universe as revealed by modern science, might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths. Sooner or later, such a religion will emerge. - Carl Edward Sagan Quotes

A religion old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the universe as revealed by modern science, might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths. Sooner or later, such a religion will emerge.

Carl Edward Sagan

What's the harm of a little mystification? It sure beats boring statistical analyses. - Carl Edward Sagan Quotes

What's the harm of a little mystification? It sure beats boring statistical analyses.

Carl Edward Sagan

We live at a moment when our relationships to each other, and to all other beings with whom we share this planet, are up for grabs. - Carl Edward Sagan Quotes

We live at a moment when our relationships to each other, and to all other beings with whom we share this planet, are up for grabs.

Carl Edward Sagan

We have swept through all of the planets in the solar system, from Mercury to Neptune, in a historic 20 (to) 30 year age of spacecraft discovery, - Carl Edward Sagan Quotes

We have swept through all of the planets in the solar system, from Mercury to Neptune, in a historic 20 (to) 30 year age of spacecraft discovery,

Carl Edward Sagan

Are we an exceptionally unlikely accident or is the universe brimming over with intelligence? (It's) a vital question for understanding ourselves and our history, - Carl Edward Sagan Quotes

Are we an exceptionally unlikely accident or is the universe brimming over with intelligence? (It's) a vital question for understanding ourselves and our history,

Carl Edward Sagan

When Kepler found his long-cherished belief did not agree with the most precise observation, he accepted the uncomfortable fact. He preferred the hard truth to his dearest illusions; that is the heart of science. - Carl Edward Sagan Quotes

When Kepler found his long-cherished belief did not agree with the most precise observation, he accepted the uncomfortable fact. He preferred the hard truth to his dearest illusions; that is the heart of science.

Carl Edward Sagan

There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That's perfectly all right; they're the aperture to finding out what's right. Science is a self-correcting process. To be accepted, new ideas must survive the most rigorous standards of evidence and scrutiny. - Carl Edward Sagan Quotes

There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That's perfectly all right; they're the aperture to finding out what's right. Science is a self-correcting process. To be accepted, new ideas must survive the most rigorous standards of evidence and scrutiny.

Carl Edward Sagan

The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition. - Carl Edward Sagan Quotes

The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.

Carl Edward Sagan

Ambition American Scientist

It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English - up to fifty words used in correct context - no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese. - Carl Edward Sagan Quotes

It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English - up to fifty words used in correct context - no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese.

Carl Edward Sagan

Our loyalties are to the species and the planet. We speak for Earth. Our obligation to survive is owed not just to ourselves but also to that Cosmos, ancient and vast, from which we spring. - Carl Edward Sagan Quotes

Our loyalties are to the species and the planet. We speak for Earth. Our obligation to survive is owed not just to ourselves but also to that Cosmos, ancient and vast, from which we spring.

Carl Edward Sagan

Earth

If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits? - Carl Edward Sagan Quotes

If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?

Carl Edward Sagan

American Scientist Belief

That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every 'superstar,' every 'supreme leader,' every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there - on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. - Carl Edward Sagan Quotes

That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every 'superstar,' every 'supreme leader,' every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there - on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

Carl Edward Sagan

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown. - Carl Edward Sagan Quotes

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

Carl Edward Sagan

American Scientist Genius

We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. - Carl Edward Sagan Quotes

We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.

Carl Edward Sagan

American Scientist

The Universe forces those who live in it to understand it. Those creatures who find everyday experience a muddled jumble of events with no predictability, no regularity, are in grave peril. The Universe belongs to those who, at least to some degree, - Carl Edward Sagan Quotes

The Universe forces those who live in it to understand it. Those creatures who find everyday experience a muddled jumble of events with no predictability, no regularity, are in grave peril. The Universe belongs to those who, at least to some degree,

Carl Edward Sagan

Who will speak for Planet Earth? - Carl Edward Sagan Quotes

Who will speak for Planet Earth?

Carl Edward Sagan

We are prodding, challenging, seeking contradictions or small, persistent residual errors, proposing alternative explanations, encouraging heresy. We give our highest rewards to those who convincingly disprove established beliefs. - Carl Edward Sagan Quotes

We are prodding, challenging, seeking contradictions or small, persistent residual errors, proposing alternative explanations, encouraging heresy. We give our highest rewards to those who convincingly disprove established beliefs.

Carl Edward Sagan

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