Carl Sagan Quotes

592 quotes · Astronomer, Astrophysicist

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Carl Sagan Quotes

All Philosophical Courageous Spiritual Creative Wise 592 quotes · page 27 of 50

Carl Sagan

Astronomer, Astrophysicist

Love

“Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you're in love, you want to tell the world.”

World Want Love You

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Carl Sagan

Astronomer, Astrophysicist

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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Wise

“Science is a way to call the bluff of those who only pretend to knowledge. It is a bulwark against mysticism, against superstition, against religion misapplied to where it has no business being.”

Way Superstitions Bluffs

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Wise

“Indeed the reasoned criticism of a prevailing belief is a service to the proponents of that belief; if they are incapable of defending it, they are well advised to abandon it. This self-questioning and error-correcting aspect of the scientific method is its most striking property.”

Errors Criticism Self Questioning

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Wise

“The neurochemistry of the brain is astonishingly busy, the circuitry of a machine more wonderful than any devised by humans. But there is no evidence that its functioning is due to anything more than the 10(14) neural connections that build an elegant architecture of consciousness.”

Brain Machines Connections

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Creative

“Writing a novel is like trying to solve a very long mathematical equation. Changing anything can change everything else.”

Writing Long Mathematical Equations

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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

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

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