Carl Sagan on Friendship
Browse 8 quotations attributed to Carl Sagan, catalogued under friendship, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Carl Sagan, entry #163773: "For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring."
Attributed to Carl Sagan, entry #189917: "Humans are good, she knew, at discerning subtle patterns that are really there, but equally so at imagining them when they are altogether absent."
8 Quotes by Carl Sagan on Friendship
"For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring."
"Humans are good, she knew, at discerning subtle patterns that are really there, but equally so at imagining them when they are altogether absent."
"Many harebrained interpretations were also widely available, especially in weekly newspapers."
"Astronomically, the U. S. S. R. and the United States are the same place."
"The search for extraterrestrial intelligence is the search for a generally acceptable cosmic context for the human species. In the deepest sense, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence is a search for ourselves."
"What counts is not what sounds plausible, not what we would like to believe, not what one or two witnesses claim, but only what is supported by hard evidence rigorously and skeptically examined. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence."
"There is a popular contention that half or more of the brain is unused. From an evolutionary point of view this would be quite extraordinary: why should it have evolved if it had no function? But actually the statement is made on very little evidence."
"Imagine, a room, awash in gasoline. And there are two implacable enemies in that room. One of them has 9,000 matches. The other has 7,000 matches. Each of them is concerned about who’s ahead, who’s stronger. Well, that's the kind of situation we are actually in. The amount of weapons that are available to the United States and the Soviet Union are so bloated, so grossly in excess of what's needed to dissuade the other that if it weren't so tragic, it would be laughable."