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
- 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.
- 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.
- Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
- 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.
- 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.
- The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
- Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
- We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.
Best Quotes
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- In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.
- Scalded cats fear even cold water.
- I'm concentrating on staying healthy, having peace, being happy, remembering what is important, taking in nature and animals, spending time reading, trying to understand the universe, where science and the spiritual meet.
- It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.
- Human nature is not of itself vicious.
- Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison.
- What's wrong with extreme dieting and hard-core fitness plans is that they don't take into account the rest of your life.