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.
- We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
- 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.
- We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.
- The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
Best Quotes
- It does kids no favors, and sets them up for a potential lifetime of poor health and social embarrassment, to excuse them from family meals of real food. Everyone benefits from healthy eating, but it is particularly crucial at the beginning of life.
- No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great service, not for itself, but for others or failing therein, it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist.
- It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.
- To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
- When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, 'Did you sleep good?' I said 'No, I made a few mistakes.'
- I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.
- People internalize, from the jail to student loan debt, to credit card debt, to unemployment to the whole collective. It manifests itself in many ways, in people's home lives, domestic stuff.
- Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
- Worry - a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.
- I like television. I still believe that television is the most powerful form of communication on Earth - I just hate what is being done with it.