Scientist Quotes
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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Carl Sagan
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We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
Wernher von Braun
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We`ve arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.
Carl Sagan
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We deeply regret Sen. Frist`s endorsement of an embryonic stem cell research policy that would turn living human beings into commodities for exploitation. ... Treating living human embryos as mere fodder for experimentation crosses a vital ethical line an...
David Stevens
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For my confirmation, I didn`t get a watch and my first pair of long pants, like most Lutheran boys. I got a telescope. My mother thought it would make the best gift.
Wernher von Braun
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When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
Alexander Graham Bell
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Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun`s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.
Alexander Graham Bell
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Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.
Alexander Graham Bell
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
Carl Sagan
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In order to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
Carl Sagan
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All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.
Carl Sagan
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It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet.
Wernher von Braun
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Research is what I`m doing when I don`t know what I`m doing.
Wernher von Braun
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In science it often happens that scientists say, `You know that`s a really good argument; my position is mistaken,` and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn`t happen as o...
Carl Sagan
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In every country, we should be teaching our children the scientific method and the reasons for a Bill of Rights. With it comes a certain decency, humility and community spirit. In the demon-haunted world that we inhabit by virtue of being human, this may ...
Carl Sagan
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But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
Carl Sagan
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I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true.
Carl Sagan
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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.
Carl Sagan
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Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.
Carl Sagan
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All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.
Carl Sagan
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If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?
Carl Sagan
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One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.
Carl Sagan
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Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep insights can be winnowed from deep nonsense.
Carl Sagan
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When you make the finding yourself - even if you`re the last person on Earth to see the light - you`ll never forget it.
Carl Sagan
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A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.
Carl Sagan
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Man is an animal which, alone among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by the fulfilment of animal desires.
Alexander Graham Bell
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Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
Carl Sagan
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If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
Carl Sagan
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The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
Carl Sagan
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Where we have strong emotions, we`re liable to fool ourselves.
Carl Sagan
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