Carl Sagan on Success
Browse 4 quotations attributed to Carl Sagan, catalogued under success, with dates where available.
This page displays 4 quotations attributed to Carl Sagan and filed under "success" in QuoteLineage. The selection is ordered by stored importance and quality scores, not citation counts. A topic label describes how an entry is catalogued; it does not establish the theme's importance in the author's work.
Attributed to Carl Sagan, entry #91048: "If we crave some cosmic purpose, then let us find ourselves a worthy goal."
Attributed to Carl Sagan, entry #90357: "This image of four spectra is taken from one of Huggins's publications. ...You can see that the Comet Winnecke resembles olive oil more than it does Comet Brorsen."
4 Quotes by Carl Sagan on Success
"If we crave some cosmic purpose, then let us find ourselves a worthy goal."
"This image of four spectra is taken from one of Huggins's publications. ...You can see that the Comet Winnecke resembles olive oil more than it does Comet Brorsen."
"It is a good idea not to make up our minds prematurely on this issue. It is probably best not to let our personal preferences influence the decision. Rather, in the long tradition of successful science, we should permit nature to reveal the truth to us."
"Evolution often uses this strategy. Indeed, the standard evolutionary practice of increasing the amount of genetic information as organisms increase in complexity is accomplished by doubling part of the genetic material and then allowing the slow specialization of function of the redundant set."