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Letter "D" » Dr. Carl Sagan Quotes
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«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.»
Author: Dr. Carl Sagan
(Astronomer, Scientist, Writer)
| About:
Science
| Keywords:
accepted, all right, aperture, correcting, evidence, hypotheses, perfectly, rigorous, scrutiny, standards, survive
«It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English - up to fifty words used in correct context - no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese.»
«Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.»
«The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.»
Author: Dr. Carl Sagan
(Astronomer, Scientist, Writer)
| About:
Mind,
Understanding
| Keywords:
in use, joyous, muscle, The Brain
«We are a way for the cosmos to know itself»
«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.»
Author: Dr. Carl Sagan
(Astronomer, Scientist, Writer)
| Keywords:
contention, contentions, disastrous, merit, The WELL, well-meaning
«It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.»
Author: Dr. Carl Sagan
(Astronomer, Scientist, Writer)
| About:
Universe
| Keywords:
delusion, grasp, persist, persist in, reassure, reassured, reassures, reassuring, satisfying
«Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.»
Author: Dr. Carl Sagan
(Astronomer, Scientist, Writer)
| Keywords:
awake, basic, citizenry, deserves, species, wide-awake, wide
«For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.»
Author: Dr. Carl Sagan
(Astronomer, Scientist, Writer)
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bearable, creatures, such as, vastness
«When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you never forget it.»
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