The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
Quote by Carl Sagan
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The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
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Carl Sagan Quotes
- A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.
- Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
- The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
- 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.
- I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.
- We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
- 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?
- 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.
- 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.
Best Quotes
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- Sure, climbing Mount Everest would be cool, but that's something I would now like to do as a family. Big experiences like that I don't want to have on my own anymore. I want to share them.
- A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.
- There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colors of life in all their purity.
- I didn't really seek attention. I just wanted to play the game well and go home.
- Most comedy is based on getting a laugh at somebody else's expense. And I find that that's just a form of bullying in a major way. So I want to be an example that you can be funny and be kind, and make people laugh without hurting somebody else's feelings.
- Lack of money is the root of all evil.
- We need to stop spending money we don't have.
- Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.