Sagan Quotes

• La carrera armamentística nuclear es como dos enemigos acérrimos metidos hasta la cintura en gasolina, uno con tres cerillas y el otro con cinco.

  Carl Sagan

  Dos, Raza, Enemigo

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• Interviewer: "Didn't [Sagan] want to believe?" Druyan: "He didn't want to believe. He wanted to know.

  Ann Druyan

  Believe, Atheism, Want

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• As my old professor Carl Sagan said so often, 'When you’re in love, you want to tell the world.’ And I base my beliefs on the information and the process that we call science. It fills me with joy to make discoveries every day of things I’ve never seen before. It fills me with joy to know that we can pursue these answers. It is an astonishing thing that we are — you and I are one of the ways the universe knows itself.

  Bill Nye

  Love You, Discovery, Joy

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• I want the strangeness and weirdness and incomprehensibility of life that art can reflect so well, but I want it to feel like a mystery that is inviting us in. Sagan's great art lesson for me was generosity of wonder and making curiosity contagious.

  Dario Robleto

  Art, Generosity, Curiosity

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

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• If Francoise Sagan hadn't written a book called A Chateau in Sweden, I would certainly write a short story called A Chateau in Puerto Rico. And I may yet.

  Truman Capote

  Book, Writing, Stories

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Carl Sagan always used to say that when he was trying to explain something to someone, he would go back to that time when he didn't understand it, and then he would retrace his thought steps so that he could make it absolutely clear, and that's one of the infinite number of things I learned from him.

  Ann Druyan

  Numbers, Trying, Steps

  "Neil deGrasse Tyson y la productora ejecutiva Ann Druyan hablan de COSMOS: UNA ODISEA ESPACIAL, el apetito del público por la ciencia y mucho más". Entrevista con Christina Radish, collider.com. 17 de marzo de 2014.

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• The issue, as correctly emphasized by Carl Sagan, is the probability of the evolution of high intelligence and an electronic civilization on an inhabited world. Once we have life (and almost surely it will be very different from life on Earth), what is the probability of its developing a lineage with high intelligence? On Earth, among millions of lineages of organisms and perhaps 50 billion speciation events, only one led to high intelligence; this makes me believe in its utter improbability.

  Ernst Mayr

  Believe, Civilization, Issues

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• My general impression about people like Steve Gould and Carl Sagan and so on is that when they disappear as individuals and are no longer appearing on the stage and they are no longer writing, that their lifetime of acknowledgement by the general reading public is not very long... There were many people in the 19th century who were equally famous people who gave working man's lectures, supporters of Darwin, we as scholars know their names but the general public never heard of them.

  Richard Lewontin

  Lectura, Escritura, Hombres

  Fuente: www.abc.net.au

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• I agree, along with Carl Sagan, that we should eventually become a two planet species. Life is too precious to place on a single planet.

  Michio Kaku

  Two, Life Is, Planets

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• If you look up at the Milky Way through the eyes of Carl Sagan, you get a feeling in your chest of something greater than yourself. And it is. But it's not supernatural.

  Richard Dawkins

  Eye, Feelings, Looks

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• Según mis cálculos, estoy a unos 100 kilómetros de Pathfinder. Técnicamente se llama "Carl Sagan Memorial Station". Pero con el debido respeto a Carl, puedo llamarla como me dé la gana. Soy el Rey de Marte.

  Andy Weir

  Kings, Memorial, Want

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• La historia pasada de las creencias humanas es un cuento con moraleja. Hemos matado a miles de nuestros semejantes porque creíamos que habían firmado un contrato con el diablo y se habían convertido en brujas. Todavía matamos a más de mil personas cada año por brujería. En mi opinión, sólo hay una esperanza para que la humanidad salga de lo que Carl Sagan llamó "el mundo encantado por el demonio" de nuestro pasado. Esa esperanza es la ciencia.

  Michael Crichton

  Ciencia, Pasado, Años

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• I remember that one time Carl Sagan was giving a talk, and he spelled out, in a kind of withering succession, these great theories of demotion that science has dealt us, all of the ways in which science is telling us we are not who we would like to believe we are. At the end of it, a young man came up to him and he said: "What do you give us in return? Now that you've taken everything from us? What meaning is left, if everything that I've been taught since I was a child turns out to be untrue?" Carl looked at him and said, Do something meaningful.

  Ann Druyan

  Meaningful, Children, Believe

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• The true scientific understanding of the nature of existence is so utterly fascinating; how could you not want people to share it? Carl Sagan, I think, said 'when you're in love, you want to tell the world.' And who, on understanding a scientific view of reality, would not, as it were, fall in love and want to tell the world.

  Richard Dawkins

  Falling In Love, Love You, Reality

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• La mitología trata del Bien contra el Mal, ¿no es así? Podemos fingir runas y astrología y leer las hojas de té... Pero ¿a quién rezamos cuando estamos aterrorizados? Carl Sagan ¿A quién rezamos?

  John Steakley

  Lectura, hojas de té, astrología

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• I want Carl Sagan to explain the sky to me.

  Whoopi Goldberg

  Sky, Want

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• Coal, oil and gas are called fossil fuels, because they are mostly made of the fossil remains of beings from long ago. The chemical energy within them is a kind of stored sunlight originally accumulated by ancient plants. Our civilization runs by burning the remains of humble creatures who inhabited the Earth hundreds of millions of years before the first humans came on the scene. Like some ghastly cannibal cult, we subsist on the dead bodies of our ancestors and distant relatives. - Dr. Carl Sagan

  Carl Sagan

  Running, Humble, Long Ago

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium”, p.104, Ballantine Books

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

  Carl Sagan

  Dinosaurs, Observation, Conclusion

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• By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out. -this quote is actually found in Carl Sagan's book The Demon Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, where he attributes it to engineer James Oberg, who says he stole it from someone else.

  Richard Dawkins

  Book, Mean, Dark

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