What did Carl Sagan mean by: We go about our daily lives understanding almost nothing of the world. - Carl Sagan Astronomer · USA Copy
+ In the deepest sense the search for extraterrestrial intelligence is a search for ourselves. Feraz Zeid, December 24, 2023January 10, 2024, Carl Sagan, Moon, 0 - Carl Sagan Astronomer · USA
+ The sky calls to us. If we do not destroy ourselves, we will one day venture to the stars. Feraz Zeid, December 24, 2023January 10, 2024, Carl Sagan, One Day, Sky, Stars, 0 - Carl Sagan Astronomer · USA
+ The simplest thought, like the concept of the number one, has an elaborate logical underpinning. Feraz Zeid, December 24, 2023January 10, 2024, Carl Sagan, Logical, Numbers, Simplest, 0 - Carl Sagan Astronomer · USA
+ Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere. Feraz Zeid, December 24, 2023January 10, 2024, Carl Sagan, Art, Motivation, 0 - Carl Sagan Astronomer · USA
+ For a long time the human instinct to understand was thwarted by facile religious explanations. Feraz Zeid, December 24, 2023January 10, 2024, Carl Sagan, religious, Time, 0 - Carl Sagan Astronomer · USA
+ Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic. Feraz Zeid, December 24, 2023January 10, 2024, Carl Sagan, Book, Cosmos, Magic, 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
+ [One’s] inability to invalidate your hypothesis is not at all the same thing as proving it true. Feraz Zeid, December 24, 2023January 10, 2024, Carl Sagan, Hypothesis, Inability, Prove, 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
