Carl Sagan Quotes, Perspective Quotes, Vision Quotes

Which aspects of our nature will prevail is uncertain, particularly when our visions and prospects are bound to one small part of the small planet Earth. But up there in the Cosmos an inescapable perspective awaits.

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I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking, feeling, remembering part of me will continue.

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If you want to make a [rhubarb] pie from scratch, first you have to create the universe.

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Observation: I can't see a thing. Conclusion: Dinosaurs.

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We are the children equally of the Sky and the Earth.

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If we're capable of conjuring up terrifying monsters in childhood, why shouldn't some of us, at least on occasion, be able to fantasize something similar, something truly horrifying, a shared delusion, as adults?

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we make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers

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We live at a moment when our relationships to each other, and to all other beings with whom we share this planet, are up for grabs.

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Maxwell's Equations have had a greater impact on human history than any ten presidents.

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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

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Our ancestors lived out of doors. They were as familiar with the night sky as most of us are with our favorite television programs.

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In science it often happens that scientists say, "You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken..."

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

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Extraordinary observations require extraordinary evidence to make them believable.

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Scientists can routinely predict a solar eclipse, to the minute, a millennium in advance. You can go to the witch doctor to lift the spell that causes your pernicious anaemia, or you can take Vitamin B12. If you want to save your child from polio, you can pray or you can inoculate. If you're interested in the sex of your unborn child, you can consult plumb-bob danglers all you want . . . but they'll be right, on average, only one time in two. If you want real accuracy . . . try amniocentesis and sonograms. Try science.

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The candle flame gutters. Its little pool of light trembles. Darkness gathers. The demons begin to stir.

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If the constellations had been named in the twentieth century, I suppose we would see bicycles and refrigerators in the sky.

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The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.

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In Mozambique, the story goes, monkeys do not talk, because they know if they utter even a single word some man will come and put them to work.

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If we are not able to ask skeptical questions, to interrogate those who tell us that something is true, to be skeptical of those in authority, then, we are up for grabs for the next charlatan (political or religious) who comes rambling along.

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