What did Carl Sagan mean by: If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves. - Carl Sagan Astronomer · USA Copy
+ Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge. Feraz Zeid, December 24, 2023January 10, 2024, Carl Sagan, Knowledge, Science, 0 - Carl Sagan Astronomer · USA
+ The universe is a pretty big place. If it’s just us, seems like an awful waste of space. Feraz Zeid, December 24, 2023January 10, 2024, Carl Sagan, Awful, Optimistic, 0 - Carl Sagan Astronomer · USA
+ The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent. Feraz Zeid, December 24, 2023January 10, 2024, Carl Sagan, Benign, Cosmos, Existentialism, 0 - Carl Sagan Astronomer · USA
+ If you are only skeptical, then no new ideas make it through to you. Feraz Zeid, December 24, 2023January 10, 2024, Carl Sagan, Acceptance, Ideas, Science, 0 - Carl Sagan Astronomer · USA
+ There are more potential combinations of DNA [physical forms] than there are atoms in the universe. Feraz Zeid, December 24, 2023January 10, 2024, Carl Sagan, Atoms, Dna, Form, 0 - Carl Sagan Astronomer · USA
+ Human history can be viewed as a slowly dawning awareness that we are members of a larger group. Feraz Zeid, December 24, 2023January 10, 2024, Carl Sagan, Awareness, Cosmos, Groups, 0 - Carl Sagan Astronomer · USA
+ The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous. Feraz Zeid, December 24, 2023January 10, 2024, Carl Sagan, Brain, Wisdom, 0 - Carl Sagan Astronomer · USA
+ But down deep, at the molecular heart of life we’re essentially identical to trees. Feraz Zeid, December 24, 2023January 10, 2024, Carl Sagan, Heart, Identical, 0 - Carl Sagan Astronomer · USA
I’ve taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art. Explain - Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Sculptor · Ukraine
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The liabilities are always 100 percent good. It’s the assets you have to worry about. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
It’s stupid the way people extrapolate the past — and not slightly stupid, but massively stupid. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
