Each of us is a tiny being, permitted to ride on the outermost skin of one of the smaller planets for a few dozen trips around the local star.
More Quotes from Carl Edward Sagan:
The significance of a finding that there are other beings who share this universe with us would be absolutely phenomenal, it would be an epochal event in human history,Carl Edward Sagan
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.
Carl Edward Sagan
You can't convince a believer of anything for their belief is not based on evidence, it's based on a deep seated need to believe.
Carl Edward Sagan
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.
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In order to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
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