I also wish that the Pledge of Allegiance were directed at the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, as it is when the President takes his oath of office, rather than to the flag and the nation
More Quotes from Carl Edward Sagan:
The fact that someone says something, doesn't mean it's true. Doesn't mean they're lying, but it doesn't mean it's true.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
There is today-in a time when old beliefs are withering-a kind of philosophical hunger, a need to know who we are and how we got here. It is an on-going search, often unconscious, for a cosmic perspective for humanity.
Carl Edward Sagan
That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every 'superstar,' every 'supreme leader,' every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there - on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
Carl Edward Sagan
Are we an exceptionally unlikely accident or is the universe brimming over with intelligence (It's) a vital question for understanding ourselves and our history,
Carl Edward Sagan
The Universe forces those who live in it to understand it. Those creatures who find everyday experience a muddled jumble of events with no predictability, no regularity, are in grave peril. The Universe belongs to those who, at least to some degree,
Carl Edward Sagan
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