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Carl Sagan Quotes - Page 23

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Our loyalties are to the species and the planet. We speak for Earth.

Our loyalties are to the species and the planet. We speak for Earth.

Loyalty, Cosmos, Earth

"Cosmos: A Personal Voyage". Book by Carl Sagan, 1980.

The method of science, as stodgy and grumpy as it may seem, is far more important than the findings of science.

Pain, Important, Pseudoscience

Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.44, Ballantine Books

We can't help it. Life looks for life.

Looks, Helping, Physics

Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (2011). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, p.21, Ballantine Books

What an astonishing thing a book is.

Book, Astonishing

"Cosmos: A Personal Voyage". TV Series (Episode 11: The Persistence of Memory), 1990.

[S]cience has itself become a kind of religion.

Religion, Atheism, Kind

I don?t feel rejected by the sky. I?m a part of it- tiny, to be sure, but everything is tiny compared to that overwhelming immensity.

Sky, Rejection, Tiny

Carl Sagan (1994). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, Random House Incorporated

In more than one respect, the exploring of the Solar System and homesteading other worlds constitutes the beginning, much more than the end, of history.

Other Worlds, Ends, Solar System

Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (2011). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, p.344, Ballantine Books

If you want to make a [rhubarb] pie from scratch, first you have to create the universe.

Pie, Scratches, Want

The politicians and the religious leaders and the weapons scientists have been at it for a long time and they've made a thorough mess of it. I mean, we're in deep trouble.

Religious, Atheist, Mean

And after we returned to the savannahs and abandoned the trees, did we long for those great graceful leaps and ecstatic moments of weightlessness in the shafts of sunlight of the forest roof?

Long, Tree, Savannah

Carl Sagan (2012). “Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence”, p.87, Ballantine Books

Billions and billions.

Astronomy, Billions, Cosmology

Keay Davidson, Carl Sagan (1999). “Carl Sagan: a life”, John Wiley & Sons

The fossil record implies trial and error, an inability to anticipate the future, features inconsistent with an efficient Great Designer (although not with a Designer of a more remote and indirect temperament)

Errors, Inability, Trial And Error

"Cosmos".

But amid much elegance and precision, the details of life and the Universe also exhibit haphazard, jury-rigged arrangements and much poor planning. What shall we make of this: an edifice abandoned early in construction by the architect?

Details Of Life, Atheism, Poor Planning

Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (2011). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, p.76, Ballantine Books

We are the children equally of the Sky and the Earth.

Children, Sky, Earth

Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.348, Ballantine Books

One trend that bothers me is the glorification of stupidity, that the media is reassuring people it's alright not to know anything. That to me is far more dangerous than a little pornography on the Internet.

Media, People, Stupidity

...the idea of a spiritual part of our nature that survives death, the notion of an afterlife, ought to be easy for religions and nations to sell. This is not an issue of which we might anticipate widespread skepticism. People will want to believe it, even if the evidence is meager to nil... compelling testimony ... provides that our personality, character, memory ... resides in the matter of the brain, it is easy not to focus on it, to find ways to evade the weight of the evidence.

Spiritual, Memories, Believe

If the greenhouse effect is a blanket in which we wrap ourselves to keep warm, nuclear winter kicks the blanket off.

Winter, Science, Nuclear

Philosophers and scientists confidently offer up traits said to be uniquely human, and the monkeys and apes casually knock them down -- toppling the pretension that humans constitute some sort of biological aristocracy among the beings on Earth.

Aristocracy, Earth, Monkeys

Eratosthenes was the director of the great library of Alexandria, the Centre of science and learning in the ancient world. Aristotle had argued that humanity was divided into Greeks and everybody else, whom he called barbarians and that the Greeks should keep themselves racially pure. He thought it was fitting for the Greeks to enslave other peoples. But Erathosthenes criticized Aristotle for his blind chauvinism, he believed there was good and bad in every nation.

Greek, Humanity, Library

"Cosmos: A Personal Voyage. Who Speaks for Earth? [Episode 13]". TV series, 1990.

The cosmos is all there is, all there ever was, and all there ever will be.

Cosmos

The universe forces those who live in it to understand it.

Force, Regularity, Predictability

Carl Sagan (2011). “Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science”, p.19, Ballantine Books

Science is only a Latin word for knowledge

Latin

Carl Sagan (2006). “The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God”, p.218, Penguin

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

Dream, Mars, Sand

Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.129, Ballantine Books

We are made of star stuff. For the most part, atoms heavier than hydrogen were created in the interiors of stars and then expelled into space to be incorporated into later stars. The Sun is probably a third generation star.

Stars, Space, Atoms

Quickly capping 363 oil well fires in a war zone is impossible. The fires would burn out of control until they put themselves out... The resulting soot might well stretch over all of South Asia... It could be carried around the world... [and] the consequences could be dire. Beneath such a pall sunlight would be dimmed, temperatures lowered and droughts more frequent. Spring and summer frosts may be expected... This endangerment of the food supplies... appears to be likely enough that it should affect the war plans.

Summer, Spring, War

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