What did Carl Sagan mean by: We go about our daily lives understanding almost nothing of the world. - Carl Sagan Astronomer · USA Copy
+ But nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine. Feraz Zeid, December 24, 2023January 10, 2024, Carl Sagan, Imagine, Subtle, 0 - Carl Sagan Astronomer · USA
+ The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas. Feraz Zeid, December 24, 2023January 10, 2024, Carl Sagan, Argument, Ideas, Science, 0 - Carl Sagan Astronomer · USA
+ It’s hard to kill a creature once it lets you see its consciousness. Feraz Zeid, December 24, 2023January 10, 2024, Carl Sagan, Consciousness, Creatures, 0 - Carl Sagan Astronomer · USA
+ And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude. Feraz Zeid, December 24, 2023January 10, 2024, Carl Sagan, Cells, 0 - Carl Sagan Astronomer · USA
+ The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it Feraz Zeid, December 24, 2023January 10, 2024, Carl Sagan, Anticipation, Anxiety, Pay, 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
+ Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity. Feraz Zeid, December 24, 2023January 10, 2024, Carl Sagan, Stupidity, 0 - Carl Sagan Astronomer · USA
+ Preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we’ve ever known. Feraz Zeid, December 24, 2023January 10, 2024, Carl Sagan, Cosmos, Home, 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