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
- I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.
- Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.
- 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.
- We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.
- Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
- 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.
- For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
- A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.
- We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
- Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.
Best Quotes
- The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.
- I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life.
- I wanted to be that quirky girl who writes funny songs that still have meaning.
- The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on science and art are as well.
- That business we started with 10 people has now grown into a great American success story.
- God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are.
- There are a lot of things that are personally uncomfortable to show, especially me without makeup and completely bloated or crying. But I've realized that it's time for me to show my audience that you don't have to be perfect to achieve your dreams. Because nobody relates to being perfect.
- They say I can open movies, and that's nice in that it puts into people's minds that women can do it. It's not just Kevin Costner, not just Arnold Schwarzenegger. Not just the guys.
- I want to deal with somebody who comes from another country to the United States and has a family that comes. I don't care if it's a black family from Jamaica or a Hispanic family from Mexico. These issues need to be dealt with, but they need to be dealt with in the entertaining way.
- To this day, I am the least materialistic person I know, because my father didn't raise me to just go out and buy this or that car. The only reason I wanted to make money as an actor was because I'm passionate about food!