Carl Sagan Philosophical Quotes — Page 21

Astronomer, Astrophysicist

Philosophical

“The understanding of the intent of the artist which I can achieve when high sometimes carries over to when I’m down. This is one of many human frontiers which cannabis has helped me traverse.”

Artist Sometimes Understanding

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Carl Sagan

Astronomer, Astrophysicist

Philosophical

“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.”

Spring Survival Loyalty

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Philosophical

“We are a way of the universe knowing itself.”

Way Knowing

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Philosophical

“He didn't want to believe. He wanted to know.”

Thinking Believe

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Philosophical

“The words "question" and "quest" are cognates. Only through inquiry can we discover truth.”

Truth Quests Inquiry

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Philosophical

“It took the Church until 1832 to remove Galileo 's work from its list of books which Catholics were forbidden to read at the risk of dire punishment of their immortal souls.”

Book Soul Punishment

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Philosophical

“An atheist has to know a lot more than I know. An atheist is someone who knows there is no god. By some definitions atheism is very stupid.”

Atheist Agnostic There Is No God

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Philosophical

“Every time you look up at the sky, every one of those points of light is a reminder that fusion power is extractable from hydrogen and other light elements, and it is an everyday reality throughout the Milky Way Galaxy.”

Reality Light Sky

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Philosophical

“The Romans called the Christians atheists. Why? Well, the Christians had a god of sorts, but it wasn't a real god. They didn't believe in the divinity of apotheosized emperors or Olympian gods. They had a peculiar, different kind of god. So it was very easy to call people who believed in a different kind of god atheists. And that general sense that an atheist is anybody who doesn't believe exactly as I do prevails in our own time.”

Real Christian Atheist

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Philosophical

“'In his celebrated book, 'On Liberty', the English philosopher John Stuart Mill argued that silencing an opinion is "a peculiar evil." If the opinion is right, we are robbed of the "opportunity of exchanging error for truth"; and if it's wrong, we are deprived of a deeper understanding of the truth in its "collision with error." If we know only our own side of the argument, we hardly know even that: it becomes stale, soon learned by rote, untested, a pallid and lifeless truth.'”

Book Opportunity Truth

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Philosophical

“Science is merely an extremely powerful method of winnowing what's true from what feels good.”

Science Powerful Feel Good

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Philosophical

“Whenever our ethnic or national prejudices are aroused, in times of scarcity, during challenges to national self esteem or nerve, when we agonize about our diminished cosmic place and purpose, or when fanaticism is bubbling up around us - then, habits of thought familiar from ages past reach for the controls.”

Past Challenges Self Esteem

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Carl Sagan — Philosophical Quotes

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