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
- Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
- Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
- 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?
- If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
- Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
- A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.
- The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
- We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.
- 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 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.
Best Quotes
- I am so fidgety - I swear I have ADD - and I always need to be doing something or being outside, just playing sports.
- Refuse to accept the belief that your professional relevance, career success or financial security turns on the next update on the latest technology. Sometimes it's good to put the paddle down and just let the canoe glide.
- There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.
- Politics is like football if you see daylight, go through the hole.
- The strength and power and goodness of America has always been based on the strength and power and goodness of our communities, our families, our faiths. That is the bedrock of what makes America, America. In our best days, we can feel the vibrancy of America's communities, large and small.
- Working with my dad was such a gas. We approached the work in a similar way. We only made two films together when I was an adult, Tucker, and Blown Away, but it was so much fun to play with your parent like that.
- In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
- I don't believe in the after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
- I feel so lucky to have both a son and a daughter, because there's a different relationship with each of them.
- I turned 54 this year and I find myself feeling like I'm in a bit of a race to get down on paper the way I really feel about life - or the way it has presented to me. And because it has presented to me very beautifully, this is hard. It is technically very hard to show positive manifestations.