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Dr. Carl Sagan Quotes
«Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.»
Author: Dr. Carl Sagan
(Astronomer, Scientist, Writer)
| Keywords:
nonsense, science and religion, scrutiny, skeptical
«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.»
Author: Dr. Carl Sagan
(Astronomer, Scientist, Writer)
| About:
History
| Keywords:
after death, and others, delighted, permitted, personally
«A galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars - -billions upon billions of stars»
Author: Dr. Carl Sagan
(Astronomer, Scientist, Writer)
| About:
Science
| Keywords:
billions, composed, galaxies, galaxy, gas, the Galaxy
«The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.»
Author: Dr. Carl Sagan
(Astronomer, Scientist, Writer)
| About:
Ambition
| Keywords:
ambition, harmony, required
«Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence»
Author: Dr. Carl Sagan
(Astronomer, Scientist, Writer)
| Keywords:
claims, evidence, extraordinary, require
«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?»
Author: Dr. Carl Sagan
(Astronomer, Scientist, Writer)
| About:
Belief,
Science
| Keywords:
conceits, deflated, deflates, deflating, disservice, Long To, with conceit
«The wind whips through the canyons of the American Southwest, and there is no one to hear it but us - a reminder of the 40,000 generations of thinking men and women who preceded us, about whom we know almost nothing, upon whom our civilization is based.»
Author: Dr. Carl Sagan
(Astronomer, Scientist, Writer)
| Keywords:
American civilization, American Woman, canyons, generations, preceded, reminder, reminders, Southwest, whips
«I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true.»
Author: Dr. Carl Sagan
(Astronomer, Scientist, Writer)
| About:
Science
| Keywords:
addition, additional, additions, inconsiderable, in addition, maintain, pseudoscience, term
«The surface of the Earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean. From it we have learned most of what we know. Recently, we have waded a little out to sea, enough to dampen our toes or, at most, wet our ankles. The water seems inviting. The ocean calls. So»
«In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken', and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen»
Author: Dr. Carl Sagan
(Astronomer, Scientist, Writer)
| About:
Arguments,
Science
| Keywords:
good argument, mistaken, scientists