Carl Sagan on History
Browse 4 quotations attributed to Carl Sagan, catalogued under history, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Carl Sagan, entry #39711: "We humans appear on the cosmic calendar so recently that our recorded history occupies only the last few seconds of the last minute of December 31st."
Attributed to Carl Sagan, entry #68447: "Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history."
4 Quotes by Carl Sagan on History
"We humans appear on the cosmic calendar so recently that our recorded history occupies only the last few seconds of the last minute of December 31st."
"Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history."
"In the vastness of the Cosmos there must be other civilizations far older and more advanced than ours."
"At any rate, both because of the clear trend in the recent history of biology and because there is not a shred of evidence to support it, I will not in these pages entertain any hypotheses on what used to be called the mind-body dualism, the idea that inhabiting the matter of the body is something made of quite different stuff, called mind."