Carl Sagan Quotes — Page 29

Carl Sagan

Astronomer, Astrophysicist

Spiritual

“We on Earth have just awakened to the great oceans of space and time from which we have emerged.”

Space Earth Ocean

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Carl Sagan

Astronomer, Astrophysicist

Courageous

“If our long-term survival is at stake, we have a basic responsibility to our species to venture to other worlds. Sailors on a becalmed sea, we sense the stirring of a breeze.”

Responsibility Sea Other Worlds

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Hopeful

“Our concern for the future can be tested by how well we support our libraries.”

Support Library

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Philosophical

“But down deep, at the molecular heart of life we're essentially identical to trees.”

Heart Tree

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Philosophical

“We humans appear on the cosmic calendar so recently that our recorded history occupies only the last few seconds of the last minute of December 31st.”

Lasts Calendars December

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Inspired

“Recent research shows that many children without enough to eat wind up with diminished capacity to understand and learn (“cognitive impairment” ). Children don't have to be starving for this to happen. Even mild undernourishment — the kind most common among poor people in America — can do it.”

Children America Wind

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Creative

“I'd like the [Cosmos] series to be so visually stimulating that somebody who isn't even interested in the concepts will just watch for the effects. And I'd like people who are prepared to do some thinking to be really stimulated.”

People Thinking Science

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Philosophical

“One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.”

Years Book Voice

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Courageous

“We are rare and precious because we are alive, because we can think as well as we can. We are privileged to influence and perhaps control our future. I believe we have an obligation to fight for life on Earth - not just for ourselves, but for all those, humans and others, who came before us, and to whom we are beholden, and for all those who, if we are wise enough, will come after.”

Believe Fighting Wise

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Philosophical

“If you are only skeptical, then no new ideas make it through to you. You become a crotchety old person convinced that nonsense is ruling the world. (There is, of course, much data to support you.) But every now and then, a new idea turns out to be on the mark, valid and wonderful. If you are too much in the habit of being skeptical about everything, you are going to miss or resent it, and either way you will be standing in the way of understanding and progress.”

Science Data Support You

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Philosophical

“If we are merely matter intricately assembled, is this really demeaning? If there's nothing here but atoms, does that make us less or does that make matter more?”

Doe Matter Atoms

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Philosophical

“Science cuts two ways, of course; its products can be used for both good and evil. But there's no turning back from science. The early warnings about technological dangers also come from science.”

Two Evil Cutting

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