69 ordspråk av Dr. Carl Sagan

US  Dr. Carl Sagan

Dr. Carl Sagan föddes den November 9th 1934 och dog den 20 December 1996 - US scientist
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 ... the use of our intelligence quite properly gives us pleasure. In this respect the brain is like a muscle. When we think well, we feel good. Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.

 A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.

 A galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars - -billions upon billions of stars

 A religion old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the universe as revealed by modern science, might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths. Sooner or later, such a religion will emerge.

 Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

 Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in 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.

 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.

 Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence

 For most of human history we have searched for our place in the cosmos. Who are we? What are we? We find that we inhabit an insignificant planet of a hum-drum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are

 For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

 I also wish that the Pledge of Allegiance were directed at the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, as it is when the President takes his oath of office, rather than to the flag and the nation

 I also wish that the Pledge of Allegiance were directed at the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, as it is when the President takes his oath of office, rather than to the flag and the nation

 I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.

 I believe that the extraordinary should be pursued. But extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.


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