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
- 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.
- 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.
- If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
- We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.
- Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.
- 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.
- 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.
Best Quotes
- We are a people that have always celebrated other people's success so long as we always had the opportunity to meet that success ourselves. That is the American nature. That is the American character. That is one of the things that makes us different from the rest of the world. And I'm afraid we could lose that or are on the verge of losing that.
- All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.
- The perennial conviction that those who work hard and play by the rules will be rewarded with a more comfortable present and a stronger future for their children faces assault from just about every direction. That great enemy of democratic capitalism, economic inequality, is real and growing.
- God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he'll be there.
- To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.
- Fighting a distraction is getting distracted.
- No matter what you're going through, there's a light at the end of the tunnel and it may seem hard to get to it but you can do it and just keep working towards it and you'll find the positive side of things.
- I can't get my knickers in a twist about my age and ageing in an industry that caters to the ids of 14-year-olds.
- All those involved in the construction of an architectural design, from the architect to the builder, have an attachment to the architecture, although it's difficult to quantify the attachment.
- He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass.