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Letter "D" » Dr. Carl Sagan Quotes
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«The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.»
«I believe that the extraordinary should be pursued. But extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.»
Author: Dr. Carl Sagan
(Astronomer, Scientist, Writer)
| Keywords:
claims, extraordinary, pursued, require
«It's better to light a candle then to curse the darkness.»
«Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep insights can be winnowed from deep nonsense»
Author: Dr. Carl Sagan
(Astronomer, Scientist, Writer)
| Keywords:
insights, nonsense, science and religion, scrutiny, skeptical
«You can't convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it's based on a deep seated need to believe»
Author: Dr. Carl Sagan
(Astronomer, Scientist, Writer)
| About:
Belief
| Keywords:
believer, convince, deep-seated, evidence, seated
«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.»
Author: Dr. Carl Sagan
(Astronomer, Scientist, Writer)
| About:
Religion
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awe, conventional, emerge, faiths, magnificence, modern science, reserves, revealed, revealed religion, reverence, sooner or later, stressed, tapped
«When Kepler found his long-cherished belief did not agree with the most precise observation, he accepted the uncomfortable fact. He preferred the hard truth to his dearest illusions; that is the heart of science.»
Author: Dr. Carl Sagan
(Astronomer, Scientist, Writer)
| About:
Science
| Keywords:
accepted, agree, dearest, illusions, Kepler, observation, precise, preferred, The Hard, uncomfortable
«Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.»
Author: Dr. Carl Sagan
(Astronomer, Scientist, Writer)
| About:
Research,
Science,
Universe
| Keywords:
incredible
«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.»
Author: Dr. Carl Sagan
(Astronomer, Scientist, Writer)
| About:
Humanity,
Mankind
| Keywords:
corner, far and away, forgotten, galaxies, galaxy, humdrum, insignificant, live on, planet, star, the Galaxy, tuck, tucked
«We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.»
Author: Dr. Carl Sagan
(Astronomer, Scientist, Writer)
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dependent, dependent on, exquisitely, hardly, technologies, technology
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