If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
Quote by Carl Sagan
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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
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Carl Sagan Quotes
- The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
- Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.
- We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
- Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
- 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.
- For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
- We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
- A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.
- All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.
- The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
Best Quotes
- Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure in the way that I throw myself into prose.
- I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.
- My dad was a militant atheist, or is a militant atheist. My mum was sort of bought up in a religious family because she was a Protestant from Ireland but wasn't especially religious.
- A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States.
- Have you listened to the radio lately? Have you heard the canned, frozen and processed product being dished up to the world as American popular music today?
- War and Peace never stay at a moment.
- But no, I don't really like romantic comedies, so I don't really care. I never go see 'em.
- God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
- Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
- For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that - is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?