His famous quote:
“A galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars - -billions upon billions of stars”
“A galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars - -billions upon billions of stars”
.. the use of our intelligence quite properly gives us pleasure. In this respect the brain is like a muscle. When we think well, we feel good. Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.”
- Dr. Carl Sagan
“You can't convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it's based on a deep seated need to believe”
- Dr. Carl Sagan
“You can't convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it's based on a deep seated need to believe”
- Dr. Carl Sagan
“Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgment, the manner in which information is collected and used”
-Dr. Carl Sagan
“Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.”
- Dr. Carl Sagan
“I believe that the extraordinary should be pursued. But extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.”
- Dr. Carl Sagan
“Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep insights can be winnowed from deep nonsense”
- Dr. Carl Sagan
“We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.”
- Dr. Carl Sagan
“When Kepler found his long-cherished belief did not agree with the most precise observation, he accepted the uncomfortable fact. He preferred the hard truth to his dearest illusions; that is the heart of science.”
- Dr. Carl Sagan
“There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That's perfectly all right; they're the aperture to finding out what's right. Science is a self-correcting process. To be accepted, new ideas must survive the most rigorous standards of evidence and scrutiny.”
- Dr. Carl Sagan
“Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.”
- Dr. Carl Sagan
-Dr. Carl Sagan
“Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.”
- Dr. Carl Sagan
“I believe that the extraordinary should be pursued. But extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.”
- Dr. Carl Sagan
“Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep insights can be winnowed from deep nonsense”
- Dr. Carl Sagan
“We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.”
- Dr. Carl Sagan
“When Kepler found his long-cherished belief did not agree with the most precise observation, he accepted the uncomfortable fact. He preferred the hard truth to his dearest illusions; that is the heart of science.”
- Dr. Carl Sagan
“There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That's perfectly all right; they're the aperture to finding out what's right. Science is a self-correcting process. To be accepted, new ideas must survive the most rigorous standards of evidence and scrutiny.”
- Dr. Carl Sagan
“Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.”
- Dr. Carl Sagan
“The well-meaning contention that all ideas have equal merit seems to me little different from the disastrous contention that no ideas have any merit.”
- Dr. Carl Sagan
“Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.”
- Dr. Carl Sagan
“Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgment, the manner in which information is collected and used”
- Dr. Carl Sagan
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