15 Out-Of-This-World Carl Sagan Quotes About The Cosmos, Love, and Earth!
15 Out-Of-This-World Carl Sagan Quotes About The Cosmos, Love, and Earth!
American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, and science communicator Carl Sagan is one of the most unforgettable figures who popularized science to a vast number of people by making it more interesting than ever. He was known for being the author of the TV series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage produced in the 1980s, which was described by David Itzkoff of The New York Times as 'a watershed moment for science-themed television programming.'
And here we are with 15 of his most memorable quotes to remind you that science is the savior you’ve been looking for!
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1. "It is sometimes said that scientists are unromantic, that their passion to figure out robs the world of beauty and mystery… It does no harm to the romance of the sunset to know a little bit about it."
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2. "Science is much more than a body of knowledge. It is a way of thinking. This is central to its success. Science invites us to let the facts in, even when they don’t conform to our preconceptions."
3. "We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever."
4. "Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you're in love, you want to tell the world."
5. "Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere."
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6. "For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love."
7. "I don't want to believe. I want to know."
8. "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence."
9. "Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence."
10. "If we can't think for ourselves, if we're unwilling to question authority, then we're just putty in the hands of those in power."
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11. "How smart does a chimpanzee have to be before killing him constitutes murder? If chimpanzees have consciousness, do they not have what until now has been described as 'human rights'?"
12. "Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another."
13. "We're made of star stuff. We are a way for the cosmos to know itself."
14. "If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe."
15. Pale Blue Dot is a photograph of planet Earth taken on February 14, 1990, by the Voyager 1 space probe from a record distance of about 3 billion miles.
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BONUS from Neil deGrasse Tyson: “Knowing how to think empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think.”
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