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Carl Sagan, Cosmos
17 quotes
Quotes
- “One glance at (a book) and you hear the voice of another person - perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across th...”
- “The reappearance of the crescent moon after the new moon; the return of the Sun after a total eclipse, the rising of the...”
- “The near side of a galaxy is tens of thousands of light-years closer to us than the far side; thus we see the front as i...”
- “We are the local embodiment of a Cosmos grown to self-awareness. We have begun to contemplate our origins: starstuff pon...”
- “The Cosmos is all that is or was or ever will be. Our feeblest contemplations of the Cosmos stir us -- there is a tingli...”
- “The lifetime of a human being is measured by decades, the lifetime of the Sun is a hundred million times longer. Compare...”
- “What a marvelous cooperative arrangement - plants and animals each inhaling each other's exhalations, a kind of planet-w...”
- “The fossil record implies trial and error, the inability to anticipate the future, features inconsistent with a Great De...”
- “If we long for our planet to be important, there is something we can do about it. We make our world significant by the c...”
- “There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That’s perfectly all right: it’s the aperture to finding out what’...”
- “Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billi...”
- “By looking far out into space we are also looking far back into time, back toward the horizon of the universe, back towa...”
- “When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion.”
- “The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.”
- “If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”
- “And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.”
- “We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.”