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Carl Sagan
American
Scientist
About the author
When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it.
Carl Sagan,
American
Scientist
#Forget
#Earth
#Light
Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.
Carl Sagan,
American
Scientist
#Science
#Deep
#Religion
#Thoughts
#Nonsense
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
Carl Sagan,
American
Scientist
#Waiting
The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
Carl Sagan,
American
Scientist
#Understanding
The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
Carl Sagan,
American
Scientist
#Harmony
#Universe
#Ambition
The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
Carl Sagan,
American
Scientist
#Universe
We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.
Carl Sagan,
American
Scientist
#Technology
#Science
#Ignorance
#Power
#Disaster
#Faces
Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.
Carl Sagan,
American
Scientist
#People
#Universe
We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.
Carl Sagan,
American
Scientist
#Technology
#Science
#Civilization
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Carl Sagan,
American
Scientist
#Thinking
#Science
#Knowledge
#Body
For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
Carl Sagan,
American
Scientist
#Love
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
Carl Sagan,
American
Scientist
#Technology
#Science
#Society
I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.
Carl Sagan,
American
Scientist
#Science
#School
#Students
#College
#Enthusiasm
I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star.
Carl Sagan,
American
Scientist
#Stars
#Night
#Students
#Sun
But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
Carl Sagan,
American
Scientist
#Fact
#Brothers
#Columbus
Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.
Carl Sagan,
American
Scientist
#Life
#Chance
#Death
#World
#History
All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.
Carl Sagan,
American
Scientist
#World
#American
#Information
#Books
#Value
A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.
Carl Sagan,
American
Scientist
#Idea
#Fanaticism
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?
Carl Sagan,
American
Scientist
#Reason
#Science
#Universe
#Stars
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
Carl Sagan,
American
Scientist
#First
#Universe
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
Carl Sagan,
American
Scientist
#Will
#Imagination
It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
Carl Sagan,
American
Scientist
#Universe
#Delusion
Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
Carl Sagan,
American
Scientist
#World
#Needs
#Understanding
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
Carl Sagan,
American
Scientist
#Universe
#Delusion