Exploring the Cosmos with Carl Sagan: Insights and Reflections
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Except for fools and madmen, everyone knows that nuclear war would he an unprecedented human catastrophe.
- Carl Sagan
Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
- Carl Sagan
Human beings grew up in forests; we have a natural affinity for them. How lovely a tree is, straining toward the sky.
- Carl Sagan
As the ancient myth makers knew, we are children equally of the earth and the sky.
- Carl Sagan
Discussing the possibilities of extraterrestrial life: I would love it even if they were short, sullen, grumpy and sexually obsessed. But there just isn’t any good evidence.
- 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.
- Carl Sagan
We are the children equally of the Sky and the Earth.
- Carl Sagan
Tsiolkovsky wrote: “The Earth is the cradle of mankind. But one does not live in the cradle forever.