Carl Sagan Quotes

592 quotes · Astronomer, Astrophysicist

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Carl Sagan Quotes

All Philosophical Courageous Spiritual Creative Wise 592 quotes · page 24 of 50

Carl Sagan

Astronomer, Astrophysicist

Angry

“It's sometimes easier to reject strong evidence than to admit that we've been wrong, this is information about ourselves worth having.”

Strong Information Self Worth

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Carl Sagan

Astronomer, Astrophysicist

Courageous

“We seem, these days, much more willing to recognize the perils before us than we were even a decade ago. The newly recognized dangers threaten all of us, equally. No one can say how it will turn out down here. But this is also, we may note, the first time that a species has become able to journey to the planets and the stars. Sailors on a becalmed sea, we sense a stirring of the breeze.”

Stars Journey Sea

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Philosophical

“The Cosmos is all that is or ever was or ever will be.”

Cosmos

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Hopeful

“The visions we offer our children shape the future.”

Children Vision

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Philosophical

“There are wonders enough out there without our inventing any.”

Pain Wonder Injury

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Philosophical

“Not all bits have equal value.”

Bits Equal

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Nostalgic

“The open road still softly calls, like a nearly forgotten song of childhood”

Song Childhood

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Philosophical

“In the middle 1970s an astronomer I admire put together a modest manifesto called "Objections to Astrology" and asked me to endorse it. I struggled with his wording, and in the end found myself unable to sign, not because I thought astrology has any validity whatever, but because I felt (and still feel) that the tone of the statement was authoritarian.”

Together Atheism Astrology

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Philosophical

“If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?”

Thinking Believe Stars

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Courageous

“Those with the courage to explore the weave and structure of the Cosmos, even where it differs profoundly from their wishes and prejudices, will penetrate its deepest mysteries.”

Wish Prejudice Cosmos

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Philosophical

“Human history can be viewed as a slowly dawning awareness that we are members of a larger group.”

Groups Awareness Cosmos

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Philosophical

“We have entered, almost without noticing, an age of exploration and discovery unparalleled since the Renaissance.”

Age Discovery Innovation

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