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Carl Sagan Quotes - Page 24

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I would be very ashamed of my civilization if we did not try to find out if there is life in outer space.

I would be very ashamed of my civilization if we did not try to find out if there is life in outer space.

Civilization, Space, Trying

How lucky we are to live in this time / the first moment in human history / when we are in fact visiting other worlds

Other Worlds, Lucky, Firsts

We can make a similar examination, but with greater uncertainty, of the extraterrestrial hypothesis that holds that a wide range of UFOs viewed on the planet Earth are space vehicles from planets of other stars.

Stars, Space, Earth

Carl Sagan (1973). “Carl Sagan's Cosmic Connection: An Extraterrestrial Perspective”, p.200, Cambridge University Press

The cannabis experience has greatly improved my appreciation for art, a subject which I had never much appreciated before.

Appreciation, Art, Appreciated

"Mr. X". Essay by Carl Sagan, hermiene.net. 1969.

[One's] inability to invalidate your hypothesis is not at all the same thing as proving it true.

Inability, Hypothesis, Prove

Discussing the possibilities of extraterrestrial life: I would love it even if they were short, sullen, grumpy and sexually obsessed. But there just isn't any good evidence.

Life, Sullen, Grumpy

We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands. The loom of time and space works the most astonishing transformations of matter.

Stars, Taken, Destiny

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 may be remembered chiefly for one fact: It was the time when the inhabitants of the earth first made contact with the vast cosmos in which their small planet is embedded.

War, Years, Space

The desire to be connected with the cosmos reflects a profound reality, but we are connected; not in the trivial ways that astrology promises, but in the deepest ways.

Reality, Astrology, Profound

Clutching our crystals and religiously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in steep decline, unable to distinguish between what's true and what feels good, we slide, almost without noticing, into superstition and darkness.

Feel Good, Darkness, Superstitions

We are at a crossroads in human history. Never before has there been a moment so simultaneously perilous and promising. We are the first species to have taken evolution into our own hands.

Taken, Hands, Firsts

Carl Sagan (2011). “Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science”, p.47, Ballantine Books

If the press descended, the science would surely suffer.

Suffering, Ifs, Presses

Carl Sagan (1997). “Contact”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

We have begun to contemplate our origins: starstuff pondering the stars; organized assemblages of ten billion billion billion atoms considering the evolution of atoms; tracing the long journey by which, here at least, consciousness arose.

Stars, Journey, Long

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

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.

Loyalty, Spring, Survival

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

Who will speak for Planet Earth?

Earth, Enthusiasm, Speak

In a lot of scientists, the ratio of wonder to skepticism declines in time. That may be connected with the fact that in some fields-mathematics, physics, some others-the great discoveries are almost entirely made by youngsters.

Science, Discovery, May

The gears of poverty, ignorance, hopelessness and low self-esteem interact to create a kind of perpetual failure machine that grinds down dreams from generation to generation. We all bear the cost of keeping it running. Illiteracy is its linchpin.

Running, Dream, Self Esteem

Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.464, Ballantine Books

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