COMPASSION

Affirmation of life is the spiritual act by which man ceases to live thoughtlessly and begins to devote himself to his life
with reverence in order to give it true value.
— Albert Schweitzer

10/12/2011

Carl Sagan (American Astronomer, Writer and Scientist, 1934-1996)

His famous quote:
“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


“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 


“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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