Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.
Quote by Carl Sagan
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Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.
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Carl Sagan Quotes
- For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
- We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.
- 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.
- I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.
- The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
- We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
- Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
- I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.
- If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?
Best Quotes
- They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
- What I have in common with the character in 'Truman' is this incredible need to please people. I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.
- Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.
- I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.
- Cross country skiing is great if you live in a small country.
- I think it's really cool that there are people like Adele on the cover of 'Vogue' and 'Rolling Stone,' and like I think it's really important that people are talking about your body, because if they don't, then you'll never be able to break that barrier.
- Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?
- We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's.
- I say, thou mad March hare.
- Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.