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
- 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.
- I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.
- A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.
- 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.
- 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 live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
- We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
- The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
Best Quotes
- Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best for that we must have recourse to art.
- The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
- No person I have ever met, not even the most righteous or pure of heart, has gone without those times when faith recedes in the busy-ness of life.
- People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
- Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
- It is not a God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of God, that the Bible describes.
- Be able to back up a car for a considerable distance in a straight line and back out of a driveway.
- In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes, I didn't use them as vehicles for my own opinion. They were factual programmes.
- I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.
- Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.