The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
Carl Sagan quote Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
Carl Sagan quote The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
Carl Sagan quote 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.
Carl Sagan quote We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.
Carl Sagan quote We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
Carl Sagan quote We are prodding, challenging, seeking contradictions or small, persistent residual errors, proposing alternative explanations, encouraging heresy. We give our highest rewards to those who convincingly disprove established beliefs.
Carl Sagan quote Think of how many religions attempt to validate themselves with prophecy. Think of how many people rely on these prophecies, however vague, however unfulfilled, to support or prop up their beliefs. Yet has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science?
Carl Sagan quote Biography
American scientist, 1934 - 96
