Tag: Carl Sagan
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Today, we’re still loaded down – and, to some extent, embarrassed – by ancient myths, but we respect them as part of the same impulse that has led to the modern, scientific kind of myth. But we now have the opportunity to discover, for the first time, the way the universe is in fact constructed as opposed to how we would wish it to be constructed.
Carl Sagan
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We’re in very bad trouble if we don’t understand the planet we’re trying to save.
Carl Sagan
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Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
Carl Sagan
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No other planet in the solar system is a suitable home for human beings; it’s this world or nothing. That’s a very powerful perception.
Carl Sagan
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The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
Carl Sagan
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We hunger to understand, so we invent myths about how we imagine the world is constructed – and they’re, of course, based upon what we know, which is ourselves and other animals. So we make up stories about how the world was hatched from a cosmic egg or created after the mating of cosmic deities or by some fiat of a powerful being.
Carl Sagan
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For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
Carl Sagan
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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Carl Sagan
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Even these stars, which seem so numerous, are as sand, as dust – or less than dust – in the enormity of the space in which there is nothing.
Carl Sagan
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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
Carl Sagan