Carl Sagan — Philosophical Quotes

355 quotes · Astronomer, Astrophysicist

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Carl Sagan Quotes

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Carl Sagan

Astronomer, Astrophysicist

Philosophical

“The Bill of Rights decoupled religion from the state, in part because so many religions were steeped in an absolutist frame of mind - each convinced that it alone had a monopoly on the truth and therefore eager for the state to impose this truth on others.”

Mind Rights Church

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Carl Sagan

Astronomer, Astrophysicist

Philosophical

“When you look more generally at life on Earth, you find that it is all the same kind of life. There are not many different kinds; there's only one kind. It uses about fifty fundamental biological building blocks, organic molecules.”

Different Block Molecules

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Philosophical

“We are, in the most profound sense, children of the Cosmos.”

Children Profound

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Philosophical

“There is never only ONE of anything in nature.”

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Philosophical

“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.”

Ideas Different Merit

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Philosophical

“We are not smart enough to decide which pieces of knowledge are permissible and which are not.”

Enough Smart Pieces

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Philosophical

“I set before you two ways: You can use your technology to destroy yourselves or to carry you to the planets and the stars. It's up to you.”

Two Stars Technology

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Philosophical

“It is said that men may not be the dreams of the god, but rather that the gods are the dreams of men.”

Inspirational Dream God

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Philosophical

“In Italy, the Inquisition was condemning people to death until the end of the eighteenth century, and inquisitional torture was not abolished in the Catholic Church until 1816. The last bastion of support for the reality of witchcraft and the necessity of punishment has been the Christian churches.”

Christian Reality Atheist

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Philosophical

“I hold that popularization of science is successful if, at first, it does no more than spark the sense of wonder.”

Doe Science Successful

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Philosophical

“Widespread intellectual and moral docility may be convenient for leaders in the short term, but it is suicidal for nations in the long term. One of the criteria for national leadership should therefore be a talent for understanding, encouraging, and making constructive use of vigorous criticism.”

Long Science Suicidal

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Philosophical

“A general problem with much of Western theology in my view is that the god portrayed is too small. It is a god of a tiny world and not a god of a galaxy much less of a universe.”

World Views Tiny

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