Carl Sagan: Frases em inglês

Carl Sagan era grande cientista do séc XX, criador da aclamada série Cosmos: An Personal Voyager e desenvolvedor no conteúdo dos Discos de Ouro da Voyager.. Frases em inglês.
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“Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.”

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Carl Sagan

“You could just as well say that an agnostic is a deeply religious person with at least a rudimentary knowledge of human fallibility.”

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Carl Sagan

“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?”

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Carl Sagan livro The Demon-Haunted World

Fonte: The Demon-Haunted World : Science as a Candle in the Dark (1995), Ch. 1 : The Most Precious Thing, p. 12
Fonte: The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

“The lifetime of a human being is measured by decades, the lifetime of the Sun is a hundred million times longer. Compared to a star, we are like mayflies, fleeting ephemeral creatures who live out their lives in the course of a single day.”

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Carl Sagan livro Cosmos

Fonte: Cosmos

“Science is, at least in part, informed worship.”

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Carl Sagan

Fonte: The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God (2006)

“I've always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.”

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Carl Sagan livro Contact

Fonte: Contact

“Those at too great a distance may, I am well aware, mistake ignorance for perspective.”

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Carl Sagan

Introduction (p. 7)
The Dragons of Eden (1977)
Fonte: Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence

“We wish to find the truth, no matter where it lies. But to find the truth we need imagination and skepticism both. We will not be afraid to speculate, but we will be careful to distinguish speculation from fact.”

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Carl Sagan

“We make our purpose.”

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Carl Sagan

Fonte: The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God

“If we are merely matter intricately assembled, is this really demeaning? If there's nothing here but atoms, does that make us less or does that make matter more?”

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Carl Sagan

Fonte: The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God

“We humans look rather different from a tree. Without a doubt we perceive the world differently than a tree does. But down deep, at the molecular heart of life, the trees and we are essentially identical.”

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Carl Sagan livro Cosmos

Fonte: Cosmos

“A galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars - billions upon billions of stars. Every star may be a sun to someone.”

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Carl Sagan livro Cosmos

Fonte: Cosmos

“And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.”

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Carl Sagan livro Cosmos

Fonte: Cosmos

“Perhaps the depth of love can be calibrated by the number of different selves that are actively involved in a given relationship.”

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Carl Sagan livro Contact

Fonte: Contact

“It is the tension between creativity and skepticism that has produced the stunning and unexpected findings of science.”

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Carl Sagan

“The immense distances to the stars and the galaxies mean that we see everything ins pace int he past, some as they were before the Earth came to be. Telescopes are time machines.”

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Carl Sagan livro Pale Blue Dot

Fonte: Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

“Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you're in love, you want to tell the world.”

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Carl Sagan livro The Demon-Haunted World

&quot;With Science on Our Side&quot; https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/entertainment/books/1994/01/09/with-science-on-our-side/9e5d2141-9d53-4b4b-aa0f-7a6a0faff845/, Washington Post (January 9, 1994) <br class="br">Variante: Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you&#x27;re in love, you want to tell the world. <br class="br">Fonte: The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark