Carl Sagan Philosophical Quotes — Page 19

Astronomer, Astrophysicist

Philosophical

“There are naive questions, tedious questions, ill-phrased questions, questions put after inadequate self-criticism. But every question is a cry to understand the world. There is no such thing as a dumb question.”

Self Criticism Dumb

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Carl Sagan

Astronomer, Astrophysicist

Philosophical

“It is all a matter of time scale. An event that would be unthinkable in a hundred years may be inevitable in a hundred million.”

Years May Matter

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Philosophical

“We are made of starstuff.”

Stars Science

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Philosophical

“To read is to voyage through time.”

Time Voyages

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Philosophical

“My parents were not scientists. They knew almost nothing about science. But in introducing me simultaneously to skepticism and to wonder, they taught me the two uneasily cohabiting modes of thought that are central to the scientific method.”

Two Science Parent

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Philosophical

“The cosmos is full beyond measure of elegant truths; of exquisite interrelationships; of the awesome machinery of nature.”

Cosmos Machinery Exquisite

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Philosophical

“Arguments from authority carry little weight – authorities have made mistakes in the past. They will do so again in the future. Perhaps a better way to say it is that in science there are no authorities; at most, there are experts.”

Way Past Mistake

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Philosophical

“There are many hypotheses in physics of almost comparable brillance and elegance that have been rejected because they did not survive such a confrontation with experiment. In my view, the human condition would be greatly improved if such confrontations and willingness to reject hypotheses were a regular part of our social, political, economic, religious and cultural lives.”

Religious Political Views

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Philosophical

“Has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science? . . . No other human institution comes close.”

Life Institutions Reliability

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Philosophical

“All of the rocky and metallic material we stand on, the iron in our blood, the calcium in our teeth, the carbon in our genes were produced billions of years ago in the interior of a red giant star. We are made of star stuff.”

Years Stars Blood

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Philosophical

“Religions are tough. Either they make no contentions which are subject to disproof or they quickly redesign doctrine after disproof. ... near the core of the religious experience is something remarkably resistant to rational inquiry.”

Religious Science Experience

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Philosophical

“We've begun at last to wonder about our origins, star stuff contemplating the stars, organized collections of ten billion billion billion atoms contemplating the evolution of matter, tracing that long path by which it arrived at consciousness here on the planet Earth and perhaps throughout the cosmos. Our obligation to survive and flourish is owed not just to ourselves but also to that cosmos, ancient and vast, from which we spring.”

Long Stars Spring

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Carl Sagan — Philosophical Quotes

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